In addition to Hiren's advice, you may now be running a program that is not
Aero friendly. If so Aero has turned itsef off. Exiting the program
restores Aero. If you can't get Aero to re-enable in settings the quick way
to check this out and track down the culprit is to boot into Clean Boot mode
so that only Microsoft programs and services are running. You should then
have Aero back. You would then progressively re-enable third party software
until you find a program that turns off Aero when you start it. I use one
website for sports events (streaming video) that turns off Aero. When I
leave the website Aero returns.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/331796
"Wholesomeflame." <Wholesomeflame.@xxxxxx> wrote in
message news:AFEF8546-E490-4286-9296-8DE55ED03FAE@xxxxxx
Quote:
> So... I had my nice sleek black color scheme for aero... I'm happy with
> it,
> but one mornign I turn it on and now it's the blueish gray... It'd been
> fine
> for these past four months i've had it but not it just decided to change
> on
> me? I don't understand.
>
> Let me summarize. I have a black task bar, where all my programs are
> displayed, but every program that pops up has a bluish grey trim... I
> don't
> get it. And when I go to personalize > windows color and appearance. I
> don't
> have the normal palette for colors, I have the theme chooser like they did
> for XP, is that for everyone?