Recent Update Killed Aero

This got lost beneath the troll trash so I thought I'd repost...

I have a two year old OEM Vista Premium PC. I just installed a number of
updates and when I restarted, the PC looks like Win95. In the Performance
section I have it set to Best Apperance with every checkbox checked... and
those settings are ignored. Checking them one at a time doesn't do anything
either. I tried going in via the desktop but found no aero settings. It seems
the recent updates reset to the PC to Vista "Basic". I thought these setback
problems were dealt with two years ago. (If MS didn't have this ridiculous
setback feature, this crap wouldn't happen to legit customers. Idiots!)

"Robb" <> wrote in message
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> This got lost beneath the troll trash so I thought I'd repost...
>
> I have a two year old OEM Vista Premium PC. I just installed a number of
> updates and when I restarted, the PC looks like Win95. In the Performance
> section I have it set to Best Apperance with every checkbox checked... and
> those settings are ignored. Checking them one at a time doesn't do
> anything
> either. I tried going in via the desktop but found no aero settings. It
> seems
> the recent updates reset to the PC to Vista "Basic". I thought these
> setback
> problems were dealt with two years ago. (If MS didn't have this ridiculous
> setback feature, this crap wouldn't happen to legit customers. Idiots!)
>
>

Did you update your Video card driver via Windows Update? If so try rolling
it back to the previous one.
It's never a good idea to use Windows update for hardware drivers...

Thanks for responding Gordon. Nope... the most recent batch of updates were
security related... plus one for Silverlight, and one for an audio driver.
None the less I should try uninstalling some of them.

"Gordon" wrote:

> Did you update your Video card driver via Windows Update? If so try rolling
> it back to the previous one.
> It's never a good idea to use Windows update for hardware drivers...
>
>

In device manager does does any option show a yellow triangle or a gra
square? Either of those signify a non-working device

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CrucialHoax

Thanks for responding CrucialHoax.... nope... all the entries in Device
Manager seem to be fine.

"CrucialHoax" wrote:

> In device manager does does any option show a yellow triangle or a gray
> square? Either of those signify a non-working device.
>

Have you updated the video driver? Whats the mfg of the pc and th
model? ie HP Pavilion dv

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CrucialHoax

Thanks again for sticking with this.

If I have updated the driver it wasn't recently. The problem started with
the last few updates... as described before. PC is an HP m8100n. It was a
3gig RAM system but I had to pull a defective 1 gig stick. But that was a
month ago. The problem is days old. The PC still describes the PC has having
Vista Premium... so I assume it's not a set-back to Basic issue...

"CrucialHoax" wrote:
> Have you updated the video driver? Whats the mfg of the pc and the
> model? ie HP Pavilion dv4

Greetings smlunatick... thanks for responding. The video score remains the
same... "3". When I go into visual settings and pick "let computer decide" or
"best appearance" they are all checked. I should do a DXDIAG. I hope I have a
baseline report.

"smlunatick" wrote:
> Another possibility is to recheck the Vista performance score?

Type in a command prompt

winsat -v

which gives some basic info

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"Robb" <> wrote in message
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> Greetings smlunatick... thanks for responding. The video score remains the
> same... "3". When I go into visual settings and pick "let computer decide"
> or
> "best appearance" they are all checked. I should do a DXDIAG. I hope I
> have a
> baseline report.
>
> "smlunatick" wrote:
>> Another possibility is to recheck the Vista performance score?
>

Double-checked the video driver. It's from 8-08.

"CrucialHoax" wrote:
> Have you updated the video driver? Whats the mfg of the pc and the
> model? ie HP Pavilion dv4