lost aero glass

Hmmm... not sure what caused this but I lost Aero Glass. The two things that I did recently were:
1. Enable hyper-threading in BIOS 2. Run winsat a number of times.
Now I don't have Aero Glass and can't even find where the setting is... Doh!
I have not activated the Vista registration yet... still have 13 days left...
TIA,
Lang

Oh yeah... installed the MS Beta Client and File Transfer manager...
"Lang Murphy" wrote in message

Hmmm... not sure what caused this but I lost Aero Glass. The two things that I did recently were:
1. Enable hyper-threading in BIOS 2. Run winsat a number of times.
Now I don't have Aero Glass and can't even find where the setting is... Doh!
I have not activated the Vista registration yet... still have 13 days left...
TIA,
Lang

Try Control + Shift + F9
Or open Control Panel (set to "Classic View") > Personalization > Themes > click in the Themes list box > select Windows Vista. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Lang Murphy" wrote in message

Hmmm... not sure what caused this but I lost Aero Glass. The two things that I did recently were:
1. Enable hyper-threading in BIOS 2. Run winsat a number of times.
Now I don't have Aero Glass and can't even find where the setting is... Doh!
I have not activated the Vista registration yet... still have 13 days left...
TIA,
Lang

Neither one has an effect on the UI... still got Non-Aero windows...
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote in message

Try Control + Shift + F9
Or open Control Panel (set to "Classic View") > Personalization > Themes click in the Themes list box > select Windows Vista. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Lang Murphy" wrote in message Hmmm... not sure what caused this but I lost Aero Glass. The two things that I did recently were:
1. Enable hyper-threading in BIOS 2. Run winsat a number of times.
Now I don't have Aero Glass and can't even find where the setting is... Doh!
I have not activated the Vista registration yet... still have 13 days left...
TIA,
Lang

Its possible you could be running an application in the background that prevents you from running Glass, examples of this includes Java based applications. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Lang Murphy" wrote in message

Neither one has an effect on the UI... still got Non-Aero windows...
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote in message Try Control + Shift + F9
Or open Control Panel (set to "Classic View") > Personalization > Themes click in the Themes list box > select Windows Vista. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Lang Murphy" wrote in message Hmmm... not sure what caused this but I lost Aero Glass. The two things that I did recently were:
1. Enable hyper-threading in BIOS 2. Run winsat a number of times.
Now I don't have Aero Glass and can't even find where the setting is... Doh!
I have not activated the Vista registration yet... still have 13 days left...
TIA,
Lang

Trying a system restore... if that doesn't work, I'll uninstall MS Beta Client and File Manager and see if that gets Aero back... If not... crap. Looks like a reinstall. But I'd really like to identify whatever is was that whacked Aero.
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote in message

Its possible you could be running an application in the background that prevents you from running Glass, examples of this includes Java based applications. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Lang Murphy" wrote in message Neither one has an effect on the UI... still got Non-Aero windows...
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote in message Try Control + Shift + F9
Or open Control Panel (set to "Classic View") > Personalization > Themes click in the Themes list box > select Windows Vista. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Lang Murphy" wrote in message Hmmm... not sure what caused this but I lost Aero Glass. The two things that I did recently were:
1. Enable hyper-threading in BIOS 2. Run winsat a number of times.
Now I don't have Aero Glass and can't even find where the setting is... Doh!
I have not activated the Vista registration yet... still have 13 days left...
TIA,
Lang

Yeah... looks like Vista got hosed... when I open Personalization -> Change your color scheme, where is says "Pick your color" and one usually sees the different window examples with the different colors, I'm seeing a blank white box with no examples.
Clicking on OK or Cancel buttons does nothing... have to mash the X button in upper right hand corner of Window to close the window...
Crap! Wish I knew what caused this... I suspect running winsat dwm hosed me... though I've got no proof at present.
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote in message

Its possible you could be running an application in the background that prevents you from running Glass, examples of this includes Java based applications. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Lang Murphy" wrote in message Neither one has an effect on the UI... still got Non-Aero windows...
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote in message Try Control + Shift + F9
Or open Control Panel (set to "Classic View") > Personalization > Themes click in the Themes list box > select Windows Vista. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Lang Murphy" wrote in message Hmmm... not sure what caused this but I lost Aero Glass. The two things that I did recently were:
1. Enable hyper-threading in BIOS 2. Run winsat a number of times.
Now I don't have Aero Glass and can't even find where the setting is... Doh!
I have not activated the Vista registration yet... still have 13 days left...
TIA,
Lang

Your best bet would be to reinstall Vista beta 2. What you could do in the mean time is, open Control Panel (set to "Classic View") > Problem Reports and Solutions > View Problem History > Check to see if there are any specific hardware driver problems there, right click one or two that you think might be causing the issue, choose View Details, copy the contents and paste here. Might help us better diagnose the problem. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Lang Murphy" wrote in message

Yeah... looks like Vista got hosed... when I open Personalization - Change your color scheme, where is says "Pick your color" and one usually sees the different window examples with the different colors, I'm seeing a blank white box with no examples.
Clicking on OK or Cancel buttons does nothing... have to mash the X button in upper right hand corner of Window to close the window...
Crap! Wish I knew what caused this... I suspect running winsat dwm hosed me... though I've got no proof at present.
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote in message Its possible you could be running an application in the background that prevents you from running Glass, examples of this includes Java based applications. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Lang Murphy" wrote in message Neither one has an effect on the UI... still got Non-Aero windows...
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote in message Try Control + Shift + F9
Or open Control Panel (set to "Classic View") > Personalization Themes > click in the Themes list box > select Windows Vista. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Lang Murphy" wrote in message Hmmm... not sure what caused this but I lost Aero Glass. The two things that I did recently were:
1. Enable hyper-threading in BIOS 2. Run winsat a number of times.
Now I don't have Aero Glass and can't even find where the setting is... Doh!
I have not activated the Vista registration yet... still have 13 days left...
TIA,
Lang

Nah, Ctrl+Shift+F9's been taken out in 5381 and above Andre :o( Try going through:

Or open Control Panel (set to "Classic View") > Personalization > Themes click in the Themes list box > select Windows Vista.

as Andre says, switch to Aero Basic/Windows Classic, apply but then change back to the orginal setting - should work OK. Sometimes you get the Glass but no transparency - that's when I just tweaked the "Visual Appearance" settings :o)
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!
--: Original message follows :-- "Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote in message

Try Control + Shift + F9
Or open Control Panel (set to "Classic View") > Personalization > Themes click in the Themes list box > select Windows Vista. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Lang Murphy" wrote in message Hmmm... not sure what caused this but I lost Aero Glass. The two things that I did recently were:
1. Enable hyper-threading in BIOS 2. Run winsat a number of times.
Now I don't have Aero Glass and can't even find where the setting is... Doh!
I have not activated the Vista registration yet... still have 13 days left...
TIA,
Lang

Andre,
Thanks for the response and tips... but... already reinstalled 5384. Think I'll run winsat a couple of times and see if that hoses it... if not... then I guess I'll dl the Beta Client and File Transfer Mgr again, see if they screwed the pooch... if not... who knows? The ol' anomaly thang, I guess... but I will post the results of my tests... for good or ill...
Thanks,
Lang
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote in message

Your best bet would be to reinstall Vista beta 2. What you could do in the mean time is, open Control Panel (set to "Classic View") > Problem Reports and Solutions > View Problem History > Check to see if there are any specific hardware driver problems there, right click one or two that you think might be causing the issue, choose View Details, copy the contents and paste here. Might help us better diagnose the problem. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Lang Murphy" wrote in message Yeah... looks like Vista got hosed... when I open Personalization - Change your color scheme, where is says "Pick your color" and one usually sees the different window examples with the different colors, I'm seeing a blank white box with no examples.
Clicking on OK or Cancel buttons does nothing... have to mash the X button in upper right hand corner of Window to close the window...
Crap! Wish I knew what caused this... I suspect running winsat dwm hosed me... though I've got no proof at present.
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote in message Its possible you could be running an application in the background that prevents you from running Glass, examples of this includes Java based applications. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Lang Murphy" wrote in message Neither one has an effect on the UI... still got Non-Aero windows...
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote in message Try Control + Shift + F9
Or open Control Panel (set to "Classic View") > Personalization Themes > click in the Themes list box > select Windows Vista. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Lang Murphy" wrote in message Hmmm... not sure what caused this but I lost Aero Glass. The two things that I did recently were:
1. Enable hyper-threading in BIOS 2. Run winsat a number of times.
Now I don't have Aero Glass and can't even find where the setting is... Doh!
I have not activated the Vista registration yet... still have 13 days left...
TIA,
Lang

Found it! Running winsat with the -csv switch hoses the graphics subsystem... yee-hah! Going to report it and reinstall and not run winsat xxx -csv till the next build...
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote in message

Your best bet would be to reinstall Vista beta 2. What you could do in the mean time is, open Control Panel (set to "Classic View") > Problem Reports and Solutions > View Problem History > Check to see if there are any specific hardware driver problems there, right click one or two that you think might be causing the issue, choose View Details, copy the contents and paste here. Might help us better diagnose the problem. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Lang Murphy" wrote in message Yeah... looks like Vista got hosed... when I open Personalization - Change your color scheme, where is says "Pick your color" and one usually sees the different window examples with the different colors, I'm seeing a blank white box with no examples.
Clicking on OK or Cancel buttons does nothing... have to mash the X button in upper right hand corner of Window to close the window...
Crap! Wish I knew what caused this... I suspect running winsat dwm hosed me... though I've got no proof at present.
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote in message Its possible you could be running an application in the background that prevents you from running Glass, examples of this includes Java based applications. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Lang Murphy" wrote in message Neither one has an effect on the UI... still got Non-Aero windows...
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote in message Try Control + Shift + F9
Or open Control Panel (set to "Classic View") > Personalization Themes > click in the Themes list box > select Windows Vista. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Lang Murphy" wrote in message Hmmm... not sure what caused this but I lost Aero Glass. The two things that I did recently were:
1. Enable hyper-threading in BIOS 2. Run winsat a number of times.
Now I don't have Aero Glass and can't even find where the setting is... Doh!
I have not activated the Vista registration yet... still have 13 days left...
TIA,
Lang

Nah... think I found a bug that those steps won't fix... the video subsystem is hosed. Beyond redemption but not a reinstall... ;-)
"Zack Whittaker" wrote in message

Nah, Ctrl+Shift+F9's been taken out in 5381 and above Andre :o( Try going through:
Or open Control Panel (set to "Classic View") > Personalization > Themes click in the Themes list box > select Windows Vista.
as Andre says, switch to Aero Basic/Windows Classic, apply but then change back to the orginal setting - should work OK. Sometimes you get the Glass but no transparency - that's when I just tweaked the "Visual Appearance" settings :o)
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!
--: Original message follows :-- "Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote in message Try Control + Shift + F9
Or open Control Panel (set to "Classic View") > Personalization > Themes click in the Themes list box > select Windows Vista. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Lang Murphy" wrote in message Hmmm... not sure what caused this but I lost Aero Glass. The two things that I did recently were:
1. Enable hyper-threading in BIOS 2. Run winsat a number of times.
Now I don't have Aero Glass and can't even find where the setting is... Doh!
I have not activated the Vista registration yet... still have 13 days left...
TIA,
Lang

And... maybe the bug's really a driver issue... If'n yer in the mood to see if "my" bug is "your" bug too... try running "winsat dwm -csv whatever.csv" and let me know how you fare... if you get the same result as I, loss of Aero Glass and when you try to open CP-Personalize-Pick your colors (or whatever the Pick your colors is named...) and you get a Pick your colors box that is blank then we have a repeatable bug across different systems. Surely this is a reckless endeavor, because you may hafta reinstall... but that's what we're here for, no?
"Lang Murphy" wrote in message

Nah... think I found a bug that those steps won't fix... the video subsystem is hosed. Beyond redemption but not a reinstall... ;-)
"Zack Whittaker" wrote in message Nah, Ctrl+Shift+F9's been taken out in 5381 and above Andre :o( Try going through:
Or open Control Panel (set to "Classic View") > Personalization > Themes click in the Themes list box > select Windows Vista.
as Andre says, switch to Aero Basic/Windows Classic, apply but then change back to the orginal setting - should work OK. Sometimes you get the Glass but no transparency - that's when I just tweaked the "Visual Appearance" settings :o)
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!
--: Original message follows :-- "Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote in message Try Control + Shift + F9
Or open Control Panel (set to "Classic View") > Personalization > Themes click in the Themes list box > select Windows Vista. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Lang Murphy" wrote in message Hmmm... not sure what caused this but I lost Aero Glass. The two things that I did recently were:
1. Enable hyper-threading in BIOS 2. Run winsat a number of times.
Now I don't have Aero Glass and can't even find where the setting is... Doh!
I have not activated the Vista registration yet... still have 13 days left...
TIA,
Lang

Here's a twist: in themes, I can select aero, but nothing changes in the example box. If I click through, the display goes crazy, blinking on and off. I'm running an ATI X600 that should handle things.

"Lang Murphy" wrote:

And... maybe the bug's really a driver issue... If'n yer in the mood to see if "my" bug is "your" bug too... try running "winsat dwm -csv whatever.csv" and let me know how you fare... if you get the same result as I, loss of Aero Glass and when you try to open CP-Personalize-Pick your colors (or whatever the Pick your colors is named...) and you get a Pick your colors box that is blank then we have a repeatable bug across different systems. Surely this is a reckless endeavor, because you may hafta reinstall... but that's what we're here for, no?
"Lang Murphy" wrote in message Nah... think I found a bug that those steps won't fix... the video subsystem is hosed. Beyond redemption but not a reinstall... ;-)
"Zack Whittaker" wrote in message Nah, Ctrl+Shift+F9's been taken out in 5381 and above Andre :o( Try going through:
Or open Control Panel (set to "Classic View") > Personalization > Themes click in the Themes list box > select Windows Vista.
as Andre says, switch to Aero Basic/Windows Classic, apply but then change back to the orginal setting - should work OK. Sometimes you get the Glass but no transparency - that's when I just tweaked the "Visual Appearance" settings :o)
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!
--: Original message follows :-- "Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote in message Try Control + Shift + F9
Or open Control Panel (set to "Classic View") > Personalization > Themes click in the Themes list box > select Windows Vista. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Lang Murphy" wrote in message Hmmm... not sure what caused this but I lost Aero Glass. The two things that I did recently were:
1. Enable hyper-threading in BIOS 2. Run winsat a number of times.
Now I don't have Aero Glass and can't even find where the setting is... Doh!
I have not activated the Vista registration yet... still have 13 days left...
TIA,
Lang

Lang howed you fix this? Mine is currently like this straight from install though its possible it might be teh same issue.
"Lang Murphy" wrote:

Yeah... looks like Vista got hosed... when I open Personalization -> Change your color scheme, where is says "Pick your color" and one usually sees the different window examples with the different colors, I'm seeing a blank white box with no examples.
Clicking on OK or Cancel buttons does nothing... have to mash the X button in upper right hand corner of Window to close the window...
Crap! Wish I knew what caused this... I suspect running winsat dwm hosed me... though I've got no proof at present.
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote in message Its possible you could be running an application in the background that prevents you from running Glass, examples of this includes Java based applications. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Lang Murphy" wrote in message Neither one has an effect on the UI... still got Non-Aero windows...
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote in message Try Control + Shift + F9
Or open Control Panel (set to "Classic View") > Personalization > Themes click in the Themes list box > select Windows Vista. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Lang Murphy" wrote in message Hmmm... not sure what caused this but I lost Aero Glass. The two things that I did recently were:
1. Enable hyper-threading in BIOS 2. Run winsat a number of times.
Now I don't have Aero Glass and can't even find where the setting is... Doh!
I have not activated the Vista registration yet... still have 13 days left...
TIA,
Lang