1. Aero theme missing, vista theme were actually aero [SOLVED] - Windows Vista
2. Aero theme missing, vista theme were actually aero
When I first installed windows vista ultimate, I had three themes, Windows Aero, Windows Vista, and Windows Classic. Then yesterday, I noticed that Windows Aero theme was missing from the list of themes, but my desktop was actually using aero (with transparency, and with the cool windows + tab task switching). I had some problems with theme and Nero 7, so I thought maybe it messed it up. Since the box was newly setup, I formatted C:\ drive and did a clean install of Windows vista ultimate again. To my surprise, as soon as I installed the correct video driver (and rebooted of course), my desktop theme automatically went to aero, but aero was still not listed at all. My theme manager says I was using "modified theme", but if I switched it to "windows vista", it still had transparency and all that, only the desktop background changed to the greenish vista picture. I wonder why this was the case. At first, I suspected some windows updates removed aero and forced vista theme to be aero, but it couldn've been the case because that happened right after I did a fresh install, before any updates were done. My box uses nVidia GeForce 8400 GS... could the nvidia video card driver be causing this? Has anyone else seen this problem? Worth mentioning here, is that my laptop (running vista ultimate, using nvidia geForce 8400M GS) is also seeing this problem, but with a twist - aero is not listed among the themes. To conserve power, I initially chose not to use aero, and currently it doesn't have transparency. Can someone help?
3. Aero Theme will not stay set and so cannot turn on Aero - Windows Vista
4. Control panel, aero, games and alt+tab stopped working
Okay, so last week or so I was cleaning up my msconfig startup options, removing the third-party programs that sometimes likes to start up with Windows. After this and doing a restart to make sure I had disabled the stuff I wanted, I noticed that Aero and alt-tab wasn't working. This didn't worry me a bit since I just thought that I might have disabled some of the needed files for my nVidia graphics card - so I went to their website and downloaded the latest driver. After installing it and restarting it, it didn't help - then I noticed that Personalize (From the right-click menu on the desktop) didn't work either. So I went to the control panel, only to find that it wasn't working either (and the menu in my Start-menu was empty of entries in the Control Panel selection). So this week I decide to do a bit of digging around on the internet to see if other people have encountered similar problems and I find that some have had problems with drivers (mostly ati, nvidia and intel graphics drivers) messing up the licensing service of Windows Vista. So I completely removed the graphics drivers of my nvidia card and installed them again - no success. I have also tried system restore with absolutely no change except a few programs are now not in my registry. So now I'm left with the problem that the licensing service (and the messaging service that's linked to the licensing service) aren't working - or I should say, the licensing service starts like it should, but the licensing messaging service doesn't and that's (apparently what's causing my problems, since Vista thinks it's now an expired trial license, and thus it has disabled the features, like it's supposed to - or that's what I can piece together, at least). Thus, I'm asking if anyone knows of a solution to this problem that doesn't involve me reinstalling Windows Vista as this is a rather tedious task I don't want to have to do (since I'm triple-booting on OSX and FreeBSD and using Windows boot manager to do so).. So please help me..
6. Off to the aero museum - any requests?
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