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Old 07-03-2006   #2 (permalink)
Andre Da Costa [Extended64]


 
 

Re: "Show Thumbnails" in Taskbar Properties greyed out

Thats because you are running a Video card that does not support the Windows
AERO Glass theme.
I don't get the new Windows Vista AERO Glass user interface, why?
Windows AERO Glass requires that you have a minimum of 64 MBs video RAM that
is Direct X 9 compliant and supports the Windows Display Driver Model
(WDDM), formerly (LDDM). If your video card does not meet these
requirements, it's the likely cause why you are not seeing it. For
onboard/integrated cards, you need to have 1 GB of dual channel memory
installed with 512 MBs of RAM allocated to the system. The amount of Video
RAM also determines the resolution size your Display can use.

To find out if your card supports AERO, click Start > Control Panel > (set
to Classic View) > double click Device Manager > expand Display Adapters >
if your card does not have (WDDM) beside it, its not supported.
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Andre
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"Nick Sharpley" <NickSharpley@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2650EC74-B9B7-4427-B32D-699956611280@microsoft.com...
> Hi ... I have performed a few installations of Beta 2 now ... and on one I
> find this setting is greyed out and I cannot enable it.
>
> I have just installed Beta 2 on my laptop and not only is this setting
> enabled, but I can change it as well ...
>
> Any ideas why it would be greyed out and switched off by default???
>
> Naturally I am in the Admin group so perms should not be the problem.
>
> Cheers
>
> Nick



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