New problem with Vista

[Guest]

Have Vista Home Premium on a Core 2 Duo CPU, 2Ghz RAM, ATI Radeon X1300 Pro
with 256MB. I just reformatted my HDD, reinstalled XP, then did the upgrade
again to Vista. Now I keep getting a message in the notification area that
Aero was turned off. WHY? All I have running is IE 7 and Windows Live Mail
Desktop.

Any suggestions?

 

[John Inzer]

Have Vista Home Premium on a Core 2 Duo CPU, 2Ghz RAM, ATI Radeon
X1300 Pro with 256MB. I just reformatted my HDD, reinstalled XP,
then did the upgrade again to Vista. Now I keep getting a message in
the notification area that Aero was turned off. WHY? All I have
running is IE 7 and Windows Live Mail Desktop.

Any suggestions?

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Maybe the following articles will offer some ideas:

Troubleshoot problems
with Windows Aero
http://tinyurl.com/2hldb4

(823883) You may not have the option to enable
transparent glass effects in Windows Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923883/en-us


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John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

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Highlights and FAQs
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Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

 

[Guest]

Thanks John for your quick reply but none of thise seem to fit in my case.
Guess I'll just have to wait until someone comes up with something.

 

[LaRoux]

I have almost this exact configuration (Pentium D instead of Core 2) and
have always had Aero Glass working great. Can you give more details about
your configuration? Did it ever work? Assuming you have Catalyst installed
from XP, have you tried uninstalling it? The built-in Vista drivers should
get you Aero Glass.

 

[Guest]

I installed Catalyst after installing Vista and then updated it from the
website. The message tells me that an application I'm using has caused Aero
to be turned off and it will turn it back on when that application closes.
As I said in my original post, it was only IE7 and Windows Live Mail Desktop
that were running and I would hope that wouldn't eat up all my RAM. In Task
Manager, CPU usage is only 1 or 2 percent and physical memory show 38%.

 

[Adam Albright]

I installed Catalyst after installing Vista and then updated it from the
website. The message tells me that an application I'm using has caused Aero
to be turned off and it will turn it back on when that application closes.
As I said in my original post, it was only IE7 and Windows Live Mail Desktop
that were running and I would hope that wouldn't eat up all my RAM. In Task
Manager, CPU usage is only 1 or 2 percent and physical memory show 38%.

It isn't a real "problem", not with Vista, but with the software you
are trying to run. Vista defaults back to "plain" mode if the
application won't run under Aero. I have some very old applications
written decades ago, some work fine without the Aero desktop being
turned off, for others Vista turns Aero off first so it seems how the
applications were written.

 

[Guest]

Well, I think I have found what is causing the problem. Any time I visit a
site that uses Shockwave, it turns Aero off. I play some games that use
shockwave and every time I access the site, there goes Aero. I think I'll
contact ATI about this.

Thanks for all your suggestions though. I appreciate it.

 

[Shane Nokes]

It's not an ATi issue, it's an issue with Flash.

Uninstall any version of flash you have and download the version of flash
located here:

http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&promoid=BIOW

 

[Guest]

Thanks Shane. Well, that didn't work. I uninstalled everything Adobe,
downloaded it again and it didn't work, so I repeated the steps, making sure
I re-booted between delete and re-install and it still shuts Aero off.

I posted a message at the Adobe forum but no one has offered any solutions
yet.

It's not that "urgent", so big deal, I lose Aero when Flash loads so what, I
just close the browser and Aero starts up again. BUT, it shouldn't work that
way. I just hope Adobe fixes it.

Thanks again for you help.

 

[Shane Nokes]

No problem

That's just so weird that it didn't fix it.

 

[Lester Stiefel]

No problem

That's just so weird that it didn't fix it.

How much RAM is there in your machine? If it is 1GB or less, that could
be a problem as Adobe will tend to use the lions share of that RAM, so
the system will compromise by turning off aero.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Lester for your input. I have 2GB of RAM and the video card is an ATI
Radeon X1300 Pro Express. I've tried different this, but nothing seems to
correct the problem so I'll just have to wait for Adobe to address the
problem. Everything is up to date and I check every day for new. I've
contacted Adobe, but no answer from them yet.

 

[Guest]

Just discovered that it wasn't Flash after all, but Java. Just uninstalled
the old version and installed the Vista version and Aero is no longer
affected by Java. Hooray! LOL