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PPro captures,edits and outputs fine. And once PPro is exited, the Win7 desktop, visually, returns to my "normal" saved Theme. While PPro is running, the Win7 Personalization page shows that my saved Theme is loaded. Clicking it's icon to reload the settings doesn't cause any visual changes. Selecting the Window Color icon brings up the Window Color and Appearance tool which has a message stating that Windows Aero is off, etc.
If I remove the Quadro 4000 entry from the cuda_supported_cards.txt file, essentially disabling the hardware MPE, Aero Glass stays on while PPro runs. Except now I have to render effects since Premiere is using the software MPE.
The NVidia driver is from 10/16/2010( 8.17.12.5993 ). Everything else on this machine(HW/SW) is up to date and is working great. I haven't been able to find any mention of this anomaly here or on other CS5 or NVidia related forums. Has anyone seen/heard of this? Is there somebody else using the Quadro 4000 with CS5?

Thanks, I checked out the search results of the link posted.
I grabbed and ran Microsoft's Mats_Run.aero.exe tool. Funny thing, even with Premiere running that tool still says there are no issues with my system. Plus I don't get a systray message saying something to the effect of "aero is turned off" like other folks report in the MS Answers forums when things like this happen. Anyway, like I said previously, I can live with this "feature" while I'm using PPro and so far with my hardware, my AE usage hasn't been effected.
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