Zapper

Telling us what video card, what drivers you have installed, what you did to
enable aero in the first place mght help....


"wgw4" <wgw4@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>
> I used to have the glass effect (among others) on my computer. Until
> yesterday that is. For the umpteenth time, my screen flickered from 1024
> x
> 768 with the glass effect to 640 x 480 without the glass effect. Normally
> as
> soon as I jiggle the mouse, it jumps back to the former settings. (Don't
> ask
> me what causes it to flicker, I don't know). This time however, it did
> revert to 1024 x 768, but the glass effects are gone. When I press Alt +
> Tab, I no longer can see previews of the windows, just their icons. When
> I
> hover my mouse over programs in the taskbar, I can't see their previews
> either; I can only see the tooltip appear with the name of the program.
> One
> other thing, the controls in the top right corner of the window changed.
> They normally (with the glass effect) are more rounded and connected to
> the
> edges of the window. Now they are only in rectangles similar, but thinner
> than those in XP.
>
> I've looked through the Control Panel in an effort to restore all these
> things that have so suddenly disappeared. The best option I could find
> was
> the Personalization tool. When I select Visual Appearance, the only
> scheme
> that has to do with Vista would be the Windows Vista Basic scheme, but it
> doesn't have the glass effect there. There's nothing related under the
> Effects button or the Advanced button to restore any of these effects
> either.
> I was unable to find anything related under the Display Settings as well.
>
> If anyone can help me, I'd appreciate it very much. Thank you.