Where are the themes?

[Guest]

Just installed the latest release of Vista and I find it just has one default
theme. Where are all the other themes that Vista was supposed to have?

 

[SAM-R]

Are you talking about the Theme page or the msstyles on the Appearance page?
What UI are you using? Basic, Standard, or Glass?

 

[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

Windows Vista has four themes, right click the Desktop, click Personalize >
Visual Appearance > Classic Appearance Options > there you will see themes
listed, Classic, Standard, Aero Basic and Aero (if you have a video card
that supports it).

 

[Guest]

My Apologize for being unclear.

The version of Vista on my PC is Build 5384. Atleast thats what it says.
I've a NVidia GeForce4 MX 4000 which I am sure is compatible with Vista.

And when I right click the Desktop, click Personalize >

Visual Appearance - I just get a dialog box with just one tab called Appearence which has the following Options:

1. Windows Vista Basic
2. Windows Standard
3. Windows Classic
4. Hight Contrast White
5. High Contrast Black
6. High Contrast #2
7. High Contrast #1

There is absolutely no other theme listed like - Classic, Standard, Aero
Basic and Aero

Thanks in advance for all your advice

 

[Zapper]

You totally confused me...

You list Vista Basic as #1, Standard as #2 and cCassic as #3....and then you
say "there are no other theme listed like Classic, Standard, Aero Basic and
Aero"....um you just listed the 3 out of 4 that your card is capable of....

 

[Mark D. VandenBerg]

You listed them! Windows Classic, etc... are the themes, just like Andre
wrote.

Vista 5384 is a Beta and is by definition not complete. There will most
likely be a Vista Plus and theme packs available when it hits retail next
year.

 

[Guest]

Hi mate,

I installed Beta 2, build 5384 on a HP Compaq nx6120 which has an ATI video
adapter on-board; the Aero glass-like theme was available on this PC.

I installed the same Beta 2, build 5384 on a HP Compaq nx6320 which has a
generic Intel video chipset on-board; the Aero glass-like theme was NOT
available - which sucks because this PC has an Intel dual-core CPU.

Anyway, the most probable reason you're not seeing the nice glassy Aero
theme is because your video adapter won't support it.

HTH...