Vista - really easy (stupid...) question about vista visual settings

I need some help with transparencies on windows vista please...


Ok, so I have Vista Home Premium SP2...Core i7 at 2.67, 6 GB ram, Nvidia GTX 285 at 1 GB...computer is perfectly capable of running transparencies on the windows...I was clicking around in the "Performance Information And Tools" > "Advanced Tools" section (I'm new to Vista and am trying to get acclimated...I felt a lot more confident on XP than I do on here), and there was a clickable link that said "Performance can be improved by changing visual settings. View details." I clicked it, and a dialogue box popped up with three options to click, and no way to close the dialogue box without selecting one (no "x" in the upper right)...there was "help", "remove from list", and "ok". I clicked "ok", and now transparencies are gone...and further, when I right-click the desktop, and go to "personalize", and then into "window color and appearance", the settings to adjust the transparencies and the vista themes are gone...its just the old, XP-looking dialogue box with selectable color schemes. Not the same settinsg it used to open up, before I clicked on whatever the heck it was. In this list is "Windows Vista Basic", Windows Standard", "Windows Classic", "High Contrast White", etc, but I can find no way to get my transparencies back (and I don't know what other visual settings I may have changed, but everything else seems to look the same.

Please, can someone help me out? Sorry for the dumb question, but I really have no idea what to do here.

Figured it out myself, thanks anyway

OK...There is no such of "Stupid Question" ... We're all learning ..

Try to set it to Wds Aero ... in "Color&appearance"

Make sure ...you click apply ...Ok ...




Go to control panel ...."Power setting"









In Advance system ...:

glad you got it fixed, but what did you do? That way other people who do the same thing will have an aswer