What Happened to Windows Aero??

[Denny]

On my Vista Home Premium machine - in Appearance Settings/color scheme--
all of a sudden Windows Aero isn't there!.. how do i get it back?.. i don't
know how this happened....
thanks

 

[VistaTester]

Did you check in Themes?

 

[Denny]

yup- i can "browse" for .theme files but there aren't any on my
computer...??..

 

[Lang Murphy]

On my Vista Home Premium machine - in Appearance Settings/color
scheme-- all of a sudden Windows Aero isn't there!.. how do i get it
back?.. i don't know how this happened....
thanks

Did you change your video card driver? Is your video card driver showing up
in Device Manager as a WDDM driver? What other apps have you recently
installed? If it, Aero, worked before, something has changed on your system
that is now preventing Aero to work. Right? Makes sense, no? Have you tried
going back to a restore point when Aero did work?

Lang

 

[Denny]

the computer is a sony vaio- there WAS a video card update done but it was a
while back-- not recently- device mgr shows NVidia GeForce Go 7400..

 

[Lang Murphy]

the computer is a sony vaio- there WAS a video card update done but it was
a while back-- not recently- device mgr shows NVidia GeForce Go 7400..

I don't know... hmm... try this:

1) Ensure that you have the following registry values set to:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM]
"Composition"=dword:00000001
"CompositionPolicy"=dword:00000002
"ColorizationOpaqueBlend"=dword:00000001

2) Restart DWM by opening a command prompt with administrative privileges:
Type 'net stop uxsms'
Then 'net start uxsms'

Good luck,

Lang

 

[Denny]

YOU ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i did what you said and VOILA!.. aero is BACK!..
thanks thanks thanks.. (did i say "thanks".??)..

the computer is a sony vaio- there WAS a video card update done but it
was a while back-- not recently- device mgr shows NVidia GeForce Go
7400..

I don't know... hmm... try this:

1) Ensure that you have the following registry values set to:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM]
"Composition"=dword:00000001
"CompositionPolicy"=dword:00000002
"ColorizationOpaqueBlend"=dword:00000001

2) Restart DWM by opening a command prompt with administrative privileges:
Type 'net stop uxsms'
Then 'net start uxsms'

Good luck,

Lang

 

[Lang Murphy]

YOU ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i did what you said and VOILA!.. aero is BACK!..
thanks thanks thanks.. (did i say "thanks".??)..

the computer is a sony vaio- there WAS a video card update done but it
was a while back-- not recently- device mgr shows NVidia GeForce Go
7400..
On my Vista Home Premium machine - in Appearance Settings/color
scheme-- all of a sudden Windows Aero isn't there!.. how do i get it
back?.. i don't know how this happened....
thanks


Did you change your video card driver? Is your video card driver
showing up in Device Manager as a WDDM driver? What other apps have you
recently installed? If it, Aero, worked before, something has changed
on your system that is now preventing Aero to work. Right? Makes sense,
no? Have you tried going back to a restore point when Aero did work?

Lang

I don't know... hmm... try this:

1) Ensure that you have the following registry values set to:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM]
"Composition"=dword:00000001
"CompositionPolicy"=dword:00000002
"ColorizationOpaqueBlend"=dword:00000001

2) Restart DWM by opening a command prompt with administrative
privileges:
Type 'net stop uxsms'
Then 'net start uxsms'

Good luck,

Lang

Well, glad that worked. You're welcome!

Lang