Vista - Vista reverts back to Windows Standard/Classic theme after restart

Hi, i'm kinda desperate atm. My laptop has this annoying habit of reverting back to windows standard/classic theme after almost every restart. I said almost as after 2/3 and sometimes even more, my aero theme correctly appeared. After another restart right after that, the problem occurs all over again.

The search function in the start menu and windows explorer also 'failed to initialize' when in the said windows standard/classic mode.

I figured that this might have something to do with my user profile as I have the 'User Profile Service service failed the login. User profile cannot be loaded' problem once very recently but I've fixed it using the tutorial in this forum. The windows standard/classic theme problem had been on for quite a while back, before the user profile problem.

Before all this happened, I've had this 'C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\Desktop refers to a location that is unavailable...' problem. I fixed that by copying all my files and folders in my C:\Users\[Username] folder to the location above and replacing all the files including desktop.ini. It is only after this that I've had the windows standard/classic theme problem.

I couldn't help but wonder if somehow my user profile has got something to do with it? Windows system restore could not fix this problem.

By the way, I'm using a modified aero theme at the moment, using TuneUp Utilities 2009 on a Vista Home Premium 32bit Acer 5920G laptop.

I would deeply appreciate any help for this poor soul!

Hello Ychao,

Welcome to the Vista Forums.

I haven't used Tune Up, but first thing I would try is to undo all the mods. and see what happens.

Please keep us posted.
Hope you enjoy the forums.

Gary

Well, I've always trusted TuneUp since I've used it for ages and it has never gave me any problems so far and this problem had only occured recently, but I'll give it a shot anyway - who knows, and I'm desperate, so yea. I'll update the results soon.

Thanks again for the speedy reply! Much appreciated!

Edit: Gary, that didn't work - I'm updating this after 3 consecutive restarts Changed back to the original Vista Aero theme and that didn't work. Uninstalled TuneUp, and that didn't work too. SIGH.

Any help, anyone?

just got the same prob

Hi everyone, I've just figured out the darn programme that was causing all of the above probs for me - Kaspersky Internet Security 2009.

So I've reverted back to KIS7 which basically solved everything - no more the dreaded windows vista standard theme!

There must be something with the Vista 32bit and KIS09 combo.
Was kinda disappointed though, I would've thought Kaspersky would've improved the programme's compatibility with Vista 32-bit systems... anyway just wanna say thanks for all the help!

Glad you got it sorted Ychao,

Thanks for posting your results.

Gary