I found what it was. In the "Visual Appearance" section it was set to
Windows Vista Basic, instead of Windows Vista AERO.
I changed this and am now able to activate the "Show Thumbnails".
"Nick Sharpley" wrote:
> I have a 128Mb nVidia GeForce FX 5500 ... and it has WDDM next to it in the
> display properties you suggest.
>
> I also have 1.5Gb RAM.
>
> Any other suggestions??
>
>
>
> "Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:
>
> > 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.
> > --
> > Andre
> > Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com
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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
> >
> >
> >