My Aero Glass theme has disappeared

Hi all,

I wonder if someone could help me with a very vexing problem.

I have a new(ish) Sony VAIO laptop with Windows Vista Business installed
on it.

A couple of months ago I disabled the Aero Glass theme and all the
eye-candy and selected the Windows Classic theme.

This evening I decided to put the Aero Glass theme back, only to
discover that it has inexplicably disappeared my system and I can only
select Windows Classic or Windows Vista Basic.

If I go to Personalize->Window Color and Appearance I get the old style
Appearance Settings dialog box pops up and there is no trace of Glass
anywhere.

I have made sure the Theme service is running and I've turned on all the
visual effects in Control Panel->System->Advanced System
Settings->Performance.

I've also tried several registry hacks and installing updated graphics
card drivers to get it back but to no avail.

Can anyone tell me how to get my Aero Glass theme back?

Regards,


Chris

If you are running the Power saver plan, Vista sometimes turns off
transparency automatically. If you don't want this to happen, you can
switch to the Balanced power plan. Go to Control Panel > Power Options.

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"Chris Morrison" <private@nospam.net> wrote in message news:u3PBnYDFIHA.5208@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
Hi all,

I wonder if someone could help me with a very vexing problem.

I have a new(ish) Sony VAIO laptop with Windows Vista Business installed
on it.

A couple of months ago I disabled the Aero Glass theme and all the
eye-candy and selected the Windows Classic theme.

This evening I decided to put the Aero Glass theme back, only to
discover that it has inexplicably disappeared my system and I can only
select Windows Classic or Windows Vista Basic.

If I go to Personalize->Window Color and Appearance I get the old style
Appearance Settings dialog box pops up and there is no trace of Glass
anywhere.

I have made sure the Theme service is running and I've turned on all the
visual effects in Control Panel->System->Advanced System
Settings->Performance.

I've also tried several registry hacks and installing updated graphics
card drivers to get it back but to no avail.

Can anyone tell me how to get my Aero Glass theme back?

Regards,


Chris

1. Click Start
2. In the search box, type Performance Information and Tools, hit enter
3. Click the Update my score link
4. Click Continue on the User Account Control dialog

Try enabling Aero Glass.
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"Chris Morrison" <private@nospam.net> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> I wonder if someone could help me with a very vexing problem.
>
> I have a new(ish) Sony VAIO laptop with Windows Vista Business installed
> on it.
>
> A couple of months ago I disabled the Aero Glass theme and all the
> eye-candy and selected the Windows Classic theme.
>
> This evening I decided to put the Aero Glass theme back, only to
> discover that it has inexplicably disappeared my system and I can only
> select Windows Classic or Windows Vista Basic.
>
> If I go to Personalize->Window Color and Appearance I get the old style
> Appearance Settings dialog box pops up and there is no trace of Glass
> anywhere.
>
> I have made sure the Theme service is running and I've turned on all the
> visual effects in Control Panel->System->Advanced System
> Settings->Performance.
>
> I've also tried several registry hacks and installing updated graphics
> card drivers to get it back but to no avail.
>
> Can anyone tell me how to get my Aero Glass theme back?
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Chris

Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin] wrote:
> 1. Click Start
> 2. In the search box, type Performance Information and Tools, hit enter
> 3. Click the Update my score link
> 4. Click Continue on the User Account Control dialog
>
> Try enabling Aero Glass.

Just enabled the Desktop Window Manager Session Manager (UxSms) service
and it came back.

That took some doing.

Thanks for the help.


Chris

1.
Done steps 1 - 3 below. Now where to I find "Click Continue on the User
Account Control dialog"

2.
Then where do i enable Aero Glass", it's not showing in my themes?
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"Chris Morrison" wrote:

> Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin] wrote:
> > 1. Click Start
> > 2. In the search box, type Performance Information and Tools, hit enter
> > 3. Click the Update my score link
> > 4. Click Continue on the User Account Control dialog
> >
> > Try enabling Aero Glass.
>
> Just enabled the Desktop Window Manager Session Manager (UxSms) service
> and it came back.
>
> That took some doing.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
>
> Chris
>
>

I have an HP pavilion with Vista Ultimate, 511mb nvidia graphics card,
lowest WEI of 4.5, I've checked my start up apps, my power plan, just
updated my graphics driver and Vista Basic is the highest color scheme
available and Aero is nowhere to be seen...its been gone for a week...

Is there anything else I can do??

Thank you very much in advance.


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I have a Sony VAIO PCV-2210, and Windows Vista Home Premium, but Aero
Doesn't appear, it's just like a blue with rounded rectangular buttons,
even after two re-installations it never shows Aero, I belive it's
because I have a poorly rated(by Microsoft's Performance rating system)
graphics card.


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Hi,

Please note the minimum requirements for Vista to enable AERO below:

a.. DirectX 9 video card
b.. Pixel shader 2.0 support
c.. AGP 4x or better or PCI Express video cards are recommended, although
some others may work
d.. At least 64 MB of video memory, more may be needed for higher
resolutions or multiple monitors
e.. A special WDDM video driver
List of supported Graphics Cards here:
http://www.iexbeta.com/wiki/index.ph...raphic_ Cards

Hope that helps,

Kris

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