Need Help With Aero. PLZ Help!!!

[Igneous Jester]

I installed a fresh copy of Vista Ultimate and when i go to the color schemes
aero does not show up what could cause this plz help..

 

[Mick Murphy]

You need 64MBs minimum, recomm. 128MBs of graphics for aero to work properly.
Also, your graphics card requires an LDDM(longhorn display driver model) and
support for directX9 API

 

[HighNoon]

One other thing you might try is to check your Windows Experience Index. It
has to be above a certain value (I do not remember the value now) to be able
to run Aero. Whenever I install new video drivers for my card I have to
refresh the Windows Experience Index. During the installation of Vista, the
WEI is determined. In my case when I installed Ultimate, the video rating
were 1.0 with the default drivers. After installing Ultimate, the very next
step was to install the latest video drivers. When I looked at the WEI, it
was showing 1.0/1.0 and "Unrated". I "refreshed" the WEI and now had 5.9/5.5
for the two video ratings and now had Aero capabilities

 

[Mark Veldhuis]

Pbb321 wrote :

in addition, since you reinstalled, be sure that you have successfully
activated vista. Areo will not become and option unless vista is
activated, regardless of your graphics ability.

That's not true. I did my Vista install a while ago and only recently
activated it (used the "rearm" method to postpone activation for a
bit).
Aero worked fine all the time, also when Vista was not yet activated.