Recent Update Killed Aero

[Robb]

This got lost beneath the troll trash so I thought I'd repost...

I have a two year old OEM Vista Premium PC. I just installed a number of
updates and when I restarted, the PC looks like Win95. In the Performance
section I have it set to Best Apperance with every checkbox checked... and
those settings are ignored. Checking them one at a time doesn't do anything
either. I tried going in via the desktop but found no aero settings. It seems
the recent updates reset to the PC to Vista "Basic". I thought these setback
problems were dealt with two years ago. (If MS didn't have this ridiculous
setback feature, this crap wouldn't happen to legit customers. Idiots!)

 

[Gordon]

This got lost beneath the troll trash so I thought I'd repost...

I have a two year old OEM Vista Premium PC. I just installed a number of
updates and when I restarted, the PC looks like Win95. In the Performance
section I have it set to Best Apperance with every checkbox checked... and
those settings are ignored. Checking them one at a time doesn't do
anything
either. I tried going in via the desktop but found no aero settings. It
seems
the recent updates reset to the PC to Vista "Basic". I thought these
setback
problems were dealt with two years ago. (If MS didn't have this ridiculous
setback feature, this crap wouldn't happen to legit customers. Idiots!)

Did you update your Video card driver via Windows Update? If so try rolling
it back to the previous one.
It's never a good idea to use Windows update for hardware drivers...

 

[Robb]

Thanks for responding Gordon. Nope... the most recent batch of updates were
security related... plus one for Silverlight, and one for an audio driver.
None the less I should try uninstalling some of them.

 

[Robb]

Thanks for responding CrucialHoax.... nope... all the entries in Device
Manager seem to be fine.

 

[smlunatick]

Have you updated the video driver? Whats the mfg of the pc and the
model? ie HP Pavilion dv4

Another possibility is to recheck the Vista performance score?

 

[Robb]

Thanks again for sticking with this.

If I have updated the driver it wasn't recently. The problem started with
the last few updates... as described before. PC is an HP m8100n. It was a
3gig RAM system but I had to pull a defective 1 gig stick. But that was a
month ago. The problem is days old. The PC still describes the PC has having
Vista Premium... so I assume it's not a set-back to Basic issue...

 

[Robb]

Greetings smlunatick... thanks for responding. The video score remains the
same... "3". When I go into visual settings and pick "let computer decide" or
"best appearance" they are all checked. I should do a DXDIAG. I hope I have a
baseline report.

 

[Guest]

Type in a command prompt

winsat -v

which gives some basic info

 

[Robb]

Double-checked the video driver. It's from 8-08.

 

[smlunatick]

Thanks again for sticking with this.

If I have updated the driver it wasn't recently. The problem started with
the last few updates... as described before. PC is an HP m8100n. It was a
3gig RAM system but I had to pull a defective 1 gig stick. But that was a
month ago. The problem is days old. The PC still describes the PC has having
Vista Premium... so I assume it's not a set-back to Basic issue...  

Did you check the Personalization section and make sure that the Aero
enabled setting is selected? I have experience an application which
changed my Vista Desktop scheme to a non-Aero one.