try restarting the service.

Task Manager - Services - click on Services box in lower right.
in the window that opens, select the service and click on Restart on the
left.




"snowburnt" <snowburnt@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> It's running but it isn't showing up still. I was able to find the
> style file, and it looks fine but won't show up under the color
> settings still.
>
> On May 6, 5:46 pm, "Disp350" <glickk...@nospam.comcast.net> wrote:
>> Check to see if the Desktop Window Manager Session Manager service is
>> running. I had a similar problem a few days after I got a new Vista PC. I
>> am
>> not sure how it happened, but somehow this service was changed from
>> Automatic to Manual. Once I started it up, The Aero theme returned.
>>
>> "snowburnt" <snowbu...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:1178480630.760708.110510@w5g2000hsg.googlegro ups.com...
>>
>>
>>
>> > Hi all,
>>
>> > Last night I had a power failure and when I turned on my computer this
>> > morning I had some hard drive problems. It wouldn't recognize my
>> > profile, the event log said that I didn't have access to my ntuser.dat
>> > file. I ended up copying my profile, deleting it and copying it back.
>> > At about that time I noticed that my aero theme was gone.
>> > I tried all the tricks I found by searching the beta boards, but the
>> > Aero theme is no where to be found along with the aero color scheme.
>> > I have a 3.8 rating and it was there before. Any ideas how to get it
>> > back?
>>
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