That's all good and well, I troubleshooted, clean booted, and everything. But
whenever I lock my computer with Vista, wait abit, and then come back it
stays aero for about ten seconds, flashes black, and goes back to turning
aero off, none of my programs turn it off, it just decides to go back to 16
bit color.
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote:
Quote:
> 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?
>