Vista - "Show Thumbnails" in Taskbar Properties greyed out

Hi ... I have performed a few installations of Beta 2 now ... and on one I
find this setting is greyed out and I cannot enable it.

I have just installed Beta 2 on my laptop and not only is this setting
enabled, but I can change it as well ...

Any ideas why it would be greyed out and switched off by default???

Naturally I am in the Admin group so perms should not be the problem.

Cheers

Nick

Thats because you are running a Video card that does not support the Windows
AERO Glass theme.
I don't get the new Windows Vista AERO Glass user interface, why?
Windows AERO Glass requires that you have a minimum of 64 MBs video RAM that
is Direct X 9 compliant and supports the Windows Display Driver Model
(WDDM), formerly (LDDM). If your video card does not meet these
requirements, it's the likely cause why you are not seeing it. For
onboard/integrated cards, you need to have 1 GB of dual channel memory
installed with 512 MBs of RAM allocated to the system. The amount of Video
RAM also determines the resolution size your Display can use.

To find out if your card supports AERO, click Start > Control Panel > (set
to Classic View) > double click Device Manager > expand Display Adapters >
if your card does not have (WDDM) beside it, its not supported.
--
Andre
Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com
Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre
http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta

"Nick Sharpley" <NickSharpley@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2650EC74-B9B7-4427-B32D-699956611280@microsoft.com...
> Hi ... I have performed a few installations of Beta 2 now ... and on one I
> find this setting is greyed out and I cannot enable it.
>
> I have just installed Beta 2 on my laptop and not only is this setting
> enabled, but I can change it as well ...
>
> Any ideas why it would be greyed out and switched off by default???
>
> Naturally I am in the Admin group so perms should not be the problem.
>
> Cheers
>
> Nick

I have a 128Mb nVidia GeForce FX 5500 ... and it has WDDM next to it in the
display properties you suggest.

I also have 1.5Gb RAM.

Any other suggestions??



"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:

> Thats because you are running a Video card that does not support the Windows
> AERO Glass theme.
> I don't get the new Windows Vista AERO Glass user interface, why?
> Windows AERO Glass requires that you have a minimum of 64 MBs video RAM that
> is Direct X 9 compliant and supports the Windows Display Driver Model
> (WDDM), formerly (LDDM). If your video card does not meet these
> requirements, it's the likely cause why you are not seeing it. For
> onboard/integrated cards, you need to have 1 GB of dual channel memory
> installed with 512 MBs of RAM allocated to the system. The amount of Video
> RAM also determines the resolution size your Display can use.
>
> To find out if your card supports AERO, click Start > Control Panel > (set
> to Classic View) > double click Device Manager > expand Display Adapters >
> if your card does not have (WDDM) beside it, its not supported.
> --
> Andre
> Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com
> Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre
> http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
>
> "Nick Sharpley" <NickSharpley@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:2650EC74-B9B7-4427-B32D-699956611280@microsoft.com...
> > Hi ... I have performed a few installations of Beta 2 now ... and on one I
> > find this setting is greyed out and I cannot enable it.
> >
> > I have just installed Beta 2 on my laptop and not only is this setting
> > enabled, but I can change it as well ...
> >
> > Any ideas why it would be greyed out and switched off by default???
> >
> > Naturally I am in the Admin group so perms should not be the problem.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Nick
>
>
>

I found what it was. In the "Visual Appearance" section it was set to
Windows Vista Basic, instead of Windows Vista AERO.

I changed this and am now able to activate the "Show Thumbnails".



"Nick Sharpley" wrote:

> I have a 128Mb nVidia GeForce FX 5500 ... and it has WDDM next to it in the
> display properties you suggest.
>
> I also have 1.5Gb RAM.
>
> Any other suggestions??
>
>
>
> "Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:
>
> > Thats because you are running a Video card that does not support the Windows
> > AERO Glass theme.
> > I don't get the new Windows Vista AERO Glass user interface, why?
> > Windows AERO Glass requires that you have a minimum of 64 MBs video RAM that
> > is Direct X 9 compliant and supports the Windows Display Driver Model
> > (WDDM), formerly (LDDM). If your video card does not meet these
> > requirements, it's the likely cause why you are not seeing it. For
> > onboard/integrated cards, you need to have 1 GB of dual channel memory
> > installed with 512 MBs of RAM allocated to the system. The amount of Video
> > RAM also determines the resolution size your Display can use.
> >
> > To find out if your card supports AERO, click Start > Control Panel > (set
> > to Classic View) > double click Device Manager > expand Display Adapters >
> > if your card does not have (WDDM) beside it, its not supported.
> > --
> > Andre
> > Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com
> > Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre
> > http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
> >
> > "Nick Sharpley" <NickSharpley@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:2650EC74-B9B7-4427-B32D-699956611280@microsoft.com...
> > > Hi ... I have performed a few installations of Beta 2 now ... and on one I
> > > find this setting is greyed out and I cannot enable it.
> > >
> > > I have just installed Beta 2 on my laptop and not only is this setting
> > > enabled, but I can change it as well ...
> > >
> > > Any ideas why it would be greyed out and switched off by default???
> > >
> > > Naturally I am in the Admin group so perms should not be the problem.
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > >
> > > Nick
> >
> >
> >