Vista - Windows Aero

k...I've been reading a lot of posts about aero, but have yet to see anyone
with my issue. I have a 4.3 base score, a 4.9 subscore for my graphics card,
areo appears in my options under my Personalization options, and when I
select it, and hit "Apply" it appears to be doing something...but then no
Aero, and when I go back to the Personalization menu...it appears to have
defaulted back to "Basic." What's up? Anyone?

Hi
it might be a stupid question, but which version of Vista do you have?
From my understnading, the basic version doessn't support it
RB

"GSHow143" wrote:

> k...I've been reading a lot of posts about aero, but have yet to see anyone
> with my issue. I have a 4.3 base score, a 4.9 subscore for my graphics card,
> areo appears in my options under my Personalization options, and when I
> select it, and hit "Apply" it appears to be doing something...but then no
> Aero, and when I go back to the Personalization menu...it appears to have
> defaulted back to "Basic." What's up? Anyone?

Hi aarbie, thanks for the quick response...I should have mentioned it in my
first post, but I am running Windows Vista Ultimate. Not sure I NEED Aero,
but it's it's bugging me that I can't get it to work when all systems seem to
be a go.

"aarbie" wrote:

> Hi
> it might be a stupid question, but which version of Vista do you have?
> From my understnading, the basic version doessn't support it
> RB
>
> "GSHow143" wrote:
>
> > k...I've been reading a lot of posts about aero, but have yet to see anyone
> > with my issue. I have a 4.3 base score, a 4.9 subscore for my graphics card,
> > areo appears in my options under my Personalization options, and when I
> > select it, and hit "Apply" it appears to be doing something...but then no
> > Aero, and when I go back to the Personalization menu...it appears to have
> > defaulted back to "Basic." What's up? Anyone?

I have the same exact problem. Been trying to fix for days. My base score
is 4.5 with Aero score of 5.9. If I mess around with ATK0110 ACPI Utility, I
can get the Aero sceme to show up in the list but when I select it and hit
apply I get the "please wait" then nothing...no Aero and it dissappears from
the list. My specs : Asus P5WDH Deluxe, 1 GB OCZ Gold 533, Sapphire ATI x800
GT 256 MB, Core2 Duo.

"GSHow143" wrote:

> k...I've been reading a lot of posts about aero, but have yet to see anyone
> with my issue. I have a 4.3 base score, a 4.9 subscore for my graphics card,
> areo appears in my options under my Personalization options, and when I
> select it, and hit "Apply" it appears to be doing something...but then no
> Aero, and when I go back to the Personalization menu...it appears to have
> defaulted back to "Basic." What's up? Anyone?

Only difference (other than it seems you have a nicer computer than I ;-)) is
that I always have Aero in the list...just never seems to click in. :-(

"Jeffro" wrote:

> I have the same exact problem. Been trying to fix for days. My base score
> is 4.5 with Aero score of 5.9. If I mess around with ATK0110 ACPI Utility, I
> can get the Aero sceme to show up in the list but when I select it and hit
> apply I get the "please wait" then nothing...no Aero and it dissappears from
> the list. My specs : Asus P5WDH Deluxe, 1 GB OCZ Gold 533, Sapphire ATI x800
> GT 256 MB, Core2 Duo.
>
> "GSHow143" wrote:
>
> > k...I've been reading a lot of posts about aero, but have yet to see anyone
> > with my issue. I have a 4.3 base score, a 4.9 subscore for my graphics card,
> > areo appears in my options under my Personalization options, and when I
> > select it, and hit "Apply" it appears to be doing something...but then no
> > Aero, and when I go back to the Personalization menu...it appears to have
> > defaulted back to "Basic." What's up? Anyone?

What kind of video card do you have? Have you updated your video drivers?
That rating thing doesn't really mean much and is NOT a reliable indicator of
performance.

"GSHow143" wrote:

> k...I've been reading a lot of posts about aero, but have yet to see anyone
> with my issue. I have a 4.3 base score, a 4.9 subscore for my graphics card,
> areo appears in my options under my Personalization options, and when I
> select it, and hit "Apply" it appears to be doing something...but then no
> Aero, and when I go back to the Personalization menu...it appears to have
> defaulted back to "Basic." What's up? Anyone?

[Default] On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 22:15:00 -0800, Ron K.
<RonK@discussions.microsoft.com> spake thusly:

>"GSHow143" wrote:
>
>> k...I've been reading a lot of posts about aero, but have yet to see anyone
>> with my issue. I have a 4.3 base score, a 4.9 subscore for my graphics card,
>> areo appears in my options under my Personalization options, and when I
>> select it, and hit "Apply" it appears to be doing something...but then no
>> Aero, and when I go back to the Personalization menu...it appears to have
>> defaulted back to "Basic." What's up? Anyone?
>
>What kind of video card do you have? Have you updated your video drivers?
>That rating thing doesn't really mean much and is NOT a reliable indicator of
>performance.
>

I've been wondering just what the heck the rating DOES mean. It seems
worthless to me.

My CPU brings down my score. It's an AMD Athlon 64 3500+. We're not
talking ancient here.
--
Scott http://angrykeyboarder.com

A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

My Aero didn't work until I upped the memory from 512 MB to 1.5 GB.

Regards,
Dweebs

"Scott" <geekboy@angrykeyboarder.com> wrote in message
news:b82js21gsafcav4mniktk0e0hbss30jfrk@4ax.com...
> [Default] On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 22:15:00 -0800, Ron K.
> <RonK@discussions.microsoft.com> spake thusly:
>
>>"GSHow143" wrote:
>>
>>> k...I've been reading a lot of posts about aero, but have yet to see
>>> anyone
>>> with my issue. I have a 4.3 base score, a 4.9 subscore for my graphics
>>> card,
>>> areo appears in my options under my Personalization options, and when I
>>> select it, and hit "Apply" it appears to be doing something...but then
>>> no
>>> Aero, and when I go back to the Personalization menu...it appears to
>>> have
>>> defaulted back to "Basic." What's up? Anyone?
>>
>>What kind of video card do you have? Have you updated your video drivers?
>>That rating thing doesn't really mean much and is NOT a reliable indicator
>>of
>>performance.
>>
>
> I've been wondering just what the heck the rating DOES mean. It seems
> worthless to me.
>
> My CPU brings down my score. It's an AMD Athlon 64 3500+. We're not
> talking ancient here.
> --
> Scott http://angrykeyboarder.com
>
> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 21:04:43 +1100, "Dweebs" <dweebken@yahoo.com> spake
thusly:
>
>"Scott" <geekboy@angrykeyboarder.com> wrote in message
>news:b82js21gsafcav4mniktk0e0hbss30jfrk@4ax.com...
>> [Default] On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 22:15:00 -0800, Ron K.
>> <RonK@discussions.microsoft.com> spake thusly:
>>
>>>"GSHow143" wrote:
>>>
>>>> k...I've been reading a lot of posts about aero, but have yet to see
>>>> anyone
>>>> with my issue. I have a 4.3 base score, a 4.9 subscore for my graphics
>>>> card,
>>>> areo appears in my options under my Personalization options, and when I
>>>> select it, and hit "Apply" it appears to be doing something...but then
>>>> no
>>>> Aero, and when I go back to the Personalization menu...it appears to
>>>> have
>>>> defaulted back to "Basic." What's up? Anyone?
>>>
>>>What kind of video card do you have? Have you updated your video drivers?
>>>That rating thing doesn't really mean much and is NOT a reliable indicator
>>>of
>>>performance.
>>>
>>
>> I've been wondering just what the heck the rating DOES mean. It seems
>> worthless to me.
>>
>> My CPU brings down my score. It's an AMD Athlon 64 3500+. We're not
>> talking ancient here.
>
>
>My Aero didn't work until I upped the memory from 512 MB to 1.5 GB.
>

I had 2GB of RAM and a 256 MB video card to start with. That was my
"saving grace".
--
Scott http://angrykeyboarder.com

A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

K...the specs: Video Card - NVIDIA GeFORCE GO7600 256MB VRAM
CPU - INTEL CENTRINO DUO MOBILE - T2500@2.00GHz
Memory - 1024 MB DDR2 SDRAM

Upgraded to Windows Vista Ultimate from Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
and yeah...I updated the video drivers, but Toshiba has not yet released
other Vista supported drivers for my particular model number...perhaps they
will have another update for my video card at that time?! Thanks.

"Ron K." wrote:

> What kind of video card do you have? Have you updated your video drivers?
> That rating thing doesn't really mean much and is NOT a reliable indicator of
> performance.
>
> "GSHow143" wrote:
>
> > k...I've been reading a lot of posts about aero, but have yet to see anyone
> > with my issue. I have a 4.3 base score, a 4.9 subscore for my graphics card,
> > areo appears in my options under my Personalization options, and when I
> > select it, and hit "Apply" it appears to be doing something...but then no
> > Aero, and when I go back to the Personalization menu...it appears to have
> > defaulted back to "Basic." What's up? Anyone?