Hello everyone!

I just got Windows Vista Home Premium on my powerful laptop.

I formatted my drive to NTFS before I installed. Then after the
installation, some drivers like Graphic, Sounds and Network are missing. I
went to my manufacturer's website (TOSHIBA) to install those drivers. It
worked perfectly. But, I cannot use some functions and my computer's rate is
1.

I cannot use FLIP 3D, the Taskbar program preview (when a program is reduced
in the taskbar) and Windows Aero.

But, Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor said that I can use those functions.

All the other functions like Games, Media Center and so on works perfectly
instead of Chess Titans which lags a bit.

Here are my system's capacities :

- Graphics : nVidia GeForce FX Go5200 with 64MB of RAM (cannot change
because it's embedded in the motherboard). Display resolution : 1440x900
- Sounds : Realtek Audio
- Memory : 2GB of RAM
- Processor : Intel Pentium 4 with 3,2Ghz
- Disk space : 80Gb

What can I do to make those functions work?

Can you help me? Thanks!

"AiAidevil" <AiAidevil@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:AAD05D7E-2CDE-46C8-8DBE-37A9BC31FF70@microsoft.com...
> Hello everyone!
>
> I just got Windows Vista Home Premium on my powerful laptop.
>
> I formatted my drive to NTFS before I installed. Then after the
> installation, some drivers like Graphic, Sounds and Network are missing. I
> went to my manufacturer's website (TOSHIBA) to install those drivers. It
> worked perfectly. But, I cannot use some functions and my computer's rate
> is
> 1.
>
> I cannot use FLIP 3D, the Taskbar program preview (when a program is
> reduced
> in the taskbar) and Windows Aero.
>
> But, Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor said that I can use those functions.
>
> All the other functions like Games, Media Center and so on works perfectly
> instead of Chess Titans which lags a bit.
>
> Here are my system's capacities :
>
> - Graphics : nVidia GeForce FX Go5200 with 64MB of RAM (cannot change
> because it's embedded in the motherboard). Display resolution : 1440x900
> - Sounds : Realtek Audio
> - Memory : 2GB of RAM
> - Processor : Intel Pentium 4 with 3,2Ghz
> - Disk space : 80Gb
>
> What can I do to make those functions work?
>
> Can you help me? Thanks!

In device manager, go to your graphics card. In the properties does it say
anything about the drivers being WDDM ? You have to have special WDDM
drivers for aero to work (along with other technical abilities of graphics
card).

And I forgot to say that the DVD Creator and Windows Movie Maker cannot work
because of my graphics.

I looked in the graphic card's properties in the device manager. I can't
found any WDDM in. Where did you find that?

"Beck" wrote:

>
> "AiAidevil" <AiAidevil@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:AAD05D7E-2CDE-46C8-8DBE-37A9BC31FF70@microsoft.com...
> > Hello everyone!
> >
> > I just got Windows Vista Home Premium on my powerful laptop.
> >
> > I formatted my drive to NTFS before I installed. Then after the
> > installation, some drivers like Graphic, Sounds and Network are missing. I
> > went to my manufacturer's website (TOSHIBA) to install those drivers. It
> > worked perfectly. But, I cannot use some functions and my computer's rate
> > is
> > 1.
> >
> > I cannot use FLIP 3D, the Taskbar program preview (when a program is
> > reduced
> > in the taskbar) and Windows Aero.
> >
> > But, Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor said that I can use those functions.
> >
> > All the other functions like Games, Media Center and so on works perfectly
> > instead of Chess Titans which lags a bit.
> >
> > Here are my system's capacities :
> >
> > - Graphics : nVidia GeForce FX Go5200 with 64MB of RAM (cannot change
> > because it's embedded in the motherboard). Display resolution : 1440x900
> > - Sounds : Realtek Audio
> > - Memory : 2GB of RAM
> > - Processor : Intel Pentium 4 with 3,2Ghz
> > - Disk space : 80Gb
> >
> > What can I do to make those functions work?
> >
> > Can you help me? Thanks!
>
> In device manager, go to your graphics card. In the properties does it say
> anything about the drivers being WDDM ? You have to have special WDDM
> drivers for aero to work (along with other technical abilities of graphics
> card).
>
>

Your graphics card does meet the minimum requirements. It only has 64 MB
RAM.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro...e/capable.mspx

There are reports of some people using registry hacks to get Aero to run
with 64 MB but it is not supported.

--
Kerry Brown
Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
http://www.vistahelp.ca


"AiAidevil" <AiAidevil@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:AAD05D7E-2CDE-46C8-8DBE-37A9BC31FF70@microsoft.com...
> Hello everyone!
>
> I just got Windows Vista Home Premium on my powerful laptop.
>
> I formatted my drive to NTFS before I installed. Then after the
> installation, some drivers like Graphic, Sounds and Network are missing. I
> went to my manufacturer's website (TOSHIBA) to install those drivers. It
> worked perfectly. But, I cannot use some functions and my computer's rate
> is
> 1.
>
> I cannot use FLIP 3D, the Taskbar program preview (when a program is
> reduced
> in the taskbar) and Windows Aero.
>
> But, Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor said that I can use those functions.
>
> All the other functions like Games, Media Center and so on works perfectly
> instead of Chess Titans which lags a bit.
>
> Here are my system's capacities :
>
> - Graphics : nVidia GeForce FX Go5200 with 64MB of RAM (cannot change
> because it's embedded in the motherboard). Display resolution : 1440x900
> - Sounds : Realtek Audio
> - Memory : 2GB of RAM
> - Processor : Intel Pentium 4 with 3,2Ghz
> - Disk space : 80Gb
>
> What can I do to make those functions work?
>
> Can you help me? Thanks!

"Beck" <beck@none> wrote in message news:eYf4FI6RHHA.4844@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>
> "AiAidevil" <AiAidevil@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:AAD05D7E-2CDE-46C8-8DBE-37A9BC31FF70@microsoft.com...
>> Hello everyone!
>>
>> I just got Windows Vista Home Premium on my powerful laptop.
>>
>> I formatted my drive to NTFS before I installed. Then after the
>> installation, some drivers like Graphic, Sounds and Network are missing. I
>> went to my manufacturer's website (TOSHIBA) to install those drivers. It
>> worked perfectly. But, I cannot use some functions and my computer's rate
>> is
>> 1.
>>
>> I cannot use FLIP 3D, the Taskbar program preview (when a program is
>> reduced
>> in the taskbar) and Windows Aero.
>>
>> But, Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor said that I can use those functions.
>>
>> All the other functions like Games, Media Center and so on works perfectly
>> instead of Chess Titans which lags a bit.
>>
>> Here are my system's capacities :
>>
>> - Graphics : nVidia GeForce FX Go5200 with 64MB of RAM (cannot change
>> because it's embedded in the motherboard). Display resolution : 1440x900
>> - Sounds : Realtek Audio
>> - Memory : 2GB of RAM
>> - Processor : Intel Pentium 4 with 3,2Ghz
>> - Disk space : 80Gb
>>
>> What can I do to make those functions work?
>>
>> Can you help me? Thanks!
>
> In device manager, go to your graphics card. In the properties does it say
> anything about the drivers being WDDM ? You have to have special WDDM
> drivers for aero to work (along with other technical abilities of graphics
> card).

The driver for my ATI card at one time had WDDM beside it. I updated
them the other day, and it doesn't say that now. They work fine, Aero
is on. My Performance Score even went up to 4.2 from a 3.8. That's
still my lowest score. But, they seem to work great.

-Michael