Vista Aero problem

on bootup

Sunday, January 28, 2007 by vbpackets7 | Discussion: Aero

I have a RADEON X800RX Graphics Card also known as RADEON X800GT - i downloaded the Drivers aswell as the ATI Catalyst Control Center and the Aero theme still is not applied. When Windows boots in i see the TaskBar is Green Aero - and DWM is enabled but then it gets disabled straight away on bootup. I did the Registry Tweaks thats lurking about on the internet but still not working.

Here is my Windows Experience Ratings Index

SystemBase Score 4.0

Processor Rating 4.0
Memory RAM Rating 4.1
Graphics Rating for Aero 5.9
Graphics Rating 4.9
Hard disk Rating 5.2

Now that should be pretty good to run the Aero Theme. I dont know why it aint being applied. When i run that Stardock Vista Styler beta program it told me DWM was not running. If anyone can try and help me out with this that will be great.

I know WindowsBlinds for Vista will probably not run anyway if DWM is not running.

Also i just run a Assessment

Windows System Assessment Tool

> Running: Feature Enumeration v1.0.0.0 ''
> Run Time 00:00:00.47
> Running: WinSAT Direct3D Assessment v1.0.0.0 '-glassw 20'
> Run Time 00:00:17.31
> Graphics Performance 1.80 F/s
> Video Memory Throughput 35.95 MB/s
> Run Time 00:00:19.59
> Total Run Time 00:00:20.72


5 Reply 32 Referrals
rabidrobot
Reply #1 Sunday, January 28, 2007 4:59 PM
Some programs, especially those using Java, can't run under Aero,and the system will silently default to Vista Basic when they are loaded. Make sure you aren't starting anything else along with your boot up that would be disabling DWM. Fireworks, for example, forces Vista Basic.

This is assuming you have gone to the Appearances Panel and selected Windows Aero.
Right Click Desktop->Personalize->Window Color and Appearance

If you go to the Appearances panel, and Aero is available, and you select it and Apply, and it doesn't take, that suggests to me a running app can't handle Aero.

But who knows, everything so new! I'm just guessing here...

CerebroJD
Reply #2 Sunday, January 28, 2007 5:03 PM
I concur with what rabitrobot has said.  There are MANY programs that disable the Aero interface (well, Windows does it actually) since their UI code is incompatible with it.  Photoshop CS2 is one of them, for example.  Check your startup progs

jtherrien
Reply #3 Monday, January 29, 2007 8:51 PM
Photoshop doesn't disable Aero for me, it just doesn't use it for itself.

doctorx36
Reply #4 Monday, January 29, 2007 10:27 PM
I believe that there is a Java version that supports Windows Vista Aero 5.9 - just got to the SunJava homepage.
http://java.com/en/download/index.jsp

vbpackets7
Reply #5 Wednesday, January 31, 2007 4:46 AM
I found out what it was when i went back to Build 5600 its some Windows update which is making the Aero get disabled but this update is already included in the versions of vista i believe.

I have my Vista coming today Vista Home Premium x64 so i will test it then and see if its fixed. I cant wait for Vista SP1 also. I noticed a bug after the install process. It asks you what you want to do about windows update. I just said Ask me later and still it continued to download and install the microsoft updates. When it did this i did a system restore then i got Aero again that was with build 5600 RC1 so im not sure if some issues was fixed in the Retail Releases. Is the released ones still build 6000 or are they higher?

Hopefully someone will make a program soon to stop Aero being disabled. I could code it but i want to leave programming alone for a while and just discover windows vista before i think about doing anything.

When Windows XP was released October 25th 2001 it took me a year just to be a XP Geek. Now i need to learn and be a Vista Geek.   

Also last night i ripped my External 300GB Hard Disk apart and put it in my PC as IDE ready for windows Vista because Windows Vista uses about 9 - 10 GB so yea. It should of boosted my system rating more though it only boosted it 1 notch it was 4.0 now its gone to 4.1 i think it should be more.   

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