Vista Aero Effect

Hi, I restored my W500 back to factory content, and found out the Aero effect, which gives the windows and taskbar a transparent look, is gone. I went to "window color and appearance," but I could not find a color scheme that says "Windows Vista Aero." Since it worked before I restored it, It's obviously not the hardware's problem. What is it then? Thanks all.

Quote from: Karst on 22-January-13, 06:58:50
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Here is my problem, the MSI 660 Ti is performing the same, or worse, than my 260 GTX.
GTX 660 does not fit with your 6 years old config.
Your mainboard, processor and RAM are a bottleneck for your GPU.
Nforce 780i - released 6 years ago
Core 2 Duo E8400 - released 5 years ago
Gskill DDR2-1066 - overvolted DDR2-800 modules, released 7 years ago.

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Regards

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
Some virtualization environments have better support for the graphics chip built-in to the Mac than others. Try a different one to see if it works better. The effect most likely is graphics driver dependent, much the same way Mac OS X Core Graphics is. There are these virtualization solutions available for the Mac*:
http://www.macmaps.com/macosxnative.html#WINTEL
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Message was edited by: omda430

Hi
Firstly you should check if your Vista version would support Aero.
Windows Vista Home Basic doesnt support Aero.
So you need a higher version of Vista to use such feature
Please also check this Microsoft page: [Troubleshoot problems with Windows Aero|http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/c33fe91a-9e6f-41f4-ae82-3ed2d5fa2fbf1033.mspx#EZD]
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I've had a extremely annoying photoshop issue for a very long time. I was hoping CS4 would eliminate this hideous bug but it's made it marginally worst.
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Photoshop CS3 & CS4 actually run way SLOWER in Aero Basic. You'll see this while zoomed in using the airbush. Even the cursor jumps across the screen without any tool being in use. If i change my cursor to 'standard' or 'precise' in the preferences the lag will go away.
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Many games studios are still using older versions of Max; admittedly most are also still using XP. PS cursor problems are one of the reasons.
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does n500 support vista aero theme?
if support ... how to adjusted.
I use Vista Ultimate.
Sorry on my bad English.

If you can find aero option in the themes menu your system will support it.unlike other operating systems vista hides certain features like aero and flip 3d if they are not supported.
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Don't you guys think it would be just a fair thing to do for your customers?
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Hi everyone :)
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slower), i figured it might have been a virus so i ran an antivirus and system cleaner but still that didn't solve the problem. My laptop is running Windows 7 Ultimate and is up for the minimum system requirements and the Aero effects were working perfectly
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Based on my research, this problem can also relate with these Windows componments and settings below:
1. Register the following dll files
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2. Group Policy, make sure following policy was disabled or unconfigured
Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Desktop WindowManager\ "Do not allow desktop composition"
3. Check the following registry keys:
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HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM\CompositionPolicy           set to 2
4. Download and Install latest Java Runtime Environment from
http://www.java.com/en/
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