Areo stopped working

[Guest]

Windows are no longer glass. Have Vista home premium.
I went to appearence and selected areo as a color scheme, hit apply and a
dialog box popped up: "the visual styles could not be applied"

Downloaded the divX codec as another thread recommended.
Restarted.
Did a system restore.
Have plenty of memory to run it.
All processes seem legit.
And still no Aero.

Dell XPS M1710 may have gone into a standby or hibernate on low battery.

Open to suggestions.

the windows '95 look bugs me and I'd like to fix this as soon as possible.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Spirit]

You probably have a startup program which causes Aero not to
run. Reboot... close as much as you can in Task Manager and
then try to turn Aero on. If this works its definitely a startup
program. You can use MSCONFIG or better Defender to
control startup programs.

 

[John Barnes]

Especially the program(s) you installed just before this change happened.

You probably have a startup program which causes Aero not to
run. Reboot... close as much as you can in Task Manager and
then try to turn Aero on. If this works its definitely a startup
program. You can use MSCONFIG or better Defender to
control startup programs.

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