Aero problem with Windows 7

[Awqa Puriq]

Hey I just realized that something seems to be wrong with the desktop on my new install of Windows 7 Home Premium. I installed yesterday and it was fine but today there are two things wrong that i noticed, the taskbar isn't transparent, and i can't see the previews of the programs i have opened. I tried troubleshooting in control panel but it said it didn't found a problem, the PC has a base score of 5.9 and i already activated my copy of windows 7. I Any ideas what settings i need to edit?

EDIT:Tried the force hack, didn't work.

This is how it looks now:


I want it to look like normal, back to the aero style, like this:



How can I edit the settings so it looks like that again?

EDIT: I found something strange in the registry. There is a last line that says "LastDisqualifiedCompositionSignature" and it's value is "1fa400". Is this causing the problem? i tried deleting it but it appears again.

[Awqa Puriq]

So can anyone help me? I'm going crazy looking for a solution. I don't wanna do the force hack and i know my PC has the necessary requirements for Aero.

[Jaketh]

run the windows experience Index, sometimes it wont turn on until you run that

[Awqa Puriq]

the PC has a base score of 5.9?

I've already done that, and i got a score of 5.9 but still nothing, i tried restarting my PC afterward but nothing. Also there is one thing that i have found weird, when i try to turn on transparancy and click on "WIndow Color" i get the wrong settings screen, even though the theme selected is under the Aero themes. (picture below)

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[Jaketh]

did you update your video driver? it wont turn Aero on until you have installed a proper driver

[Awqa Puriq]

I updated my driver yesterday to the NVIDIA 197.13 64bit. I have a Zotac 285 GTX. I also just tried the force hack and it didn't work.

[Jaketh]

hmm, no idea then, wait for one of the basement gods to reply

[Awqa Puriq]

Damn it, just when i thought everything was going good with the PC :/ Hopefully I get a reply from the basement "gods" lol. Thanks for trying help anyway, I appreciate it.

[Spiff]

if you use the search bar in the windows7 start bar to search for "aero" there seems to be a program designed specifically to troubleshoot aero problems - you might want to try that.

[Awqa Puriq]

if you use the search bar in the windows7 start bar to search for "aero" there seems to be a program designed specifically to troubleshoot aero problems - you might want to try that.

That was the first thing I did, unfortunately it didn't work. All it says is:
Troubleshooting couldn't identified the problem.

It was fine yesterday when i installed the OS but today it appear like that when i turned it on.

[Jaketh]

i assume you restarted your computer since then

[Awqa Puriq]

Yea, a couple times actually since there were updates i have to restart and i wasn't gonna leave the PC on all night when i was sleeping so yea.

[Awqa Puriq]

I don't wanna sound desperate and i realize this is my second time bumping but has anyone ever experience a problem like this? or know of a similar problem?

[Jaketh]

freddie or Simetrical would have the answer, try pming them

[Simetrical]

freddie or Simetrical would have the answer, try pming them

I don't know anything about Windows. My only suggestion would be the usual one, reinstall.

[Freddie]

I don't know anything about Windows. My only suggestion would be the usual one, reinstall.

Drama Queen. But to be fair a reinstall of Windows 7 isn't actually that big job if he hasn't installed all of his applications before hand.

A simple system restore ended up fixing this problem, he was using the video card drivers that were supplied to him on the disc and this was what was causing the problem (he reinstalled the same driver after the restore which replicated the problem) he is now be using the latest drivers from NVIDIA. I can only assume there's a bug with the version of the drivers supplied to him on that disc with Aero effects.

[Awqa Puriq]

A simple system restore ended up fixing this problem, he was using the video card drivers that were supplied to him on the disc and this was what was causing the problem (he reinstalled the same driver after the restore which replicated the problem) he is now be using the latest drivers from NVIDIA. I can only assume there's a bug with the version of the drivers supplied to him on that disc with Aero effects.

Yep that did it. It was strange though, but glad that's over.

[Capt. Fozdike]

Yep that did it. It was strange though, but glad that's over.

Yeah that's what happened with me

[Awqa Puriq]

Thanks.

[Capt. Fozdike]

Try rolling back your video driver because the drivers they give you on the disc sometimes stuff up Win7. Uninstall your NVIDIA drivers and then re-download them