Thanks, again, Mark. I believe you've hit the nail on the head. As a
matter of fact, I'm planning to add more memory this weekend (only got 1.5 G
so far).
I have noticed that the multimeter gadget that shows the processor's (AMD
Turion X2, 1.6 GHz) core usage gets pegged quite a bit during boot-up
sequence. That may be where the resources are lacking. Guess I've also got
on the stick and troubleshoot what I'm loading at startup that is burdening
the processor so heavily.
Unfortunately, I can't seem to figure out how to rate your helpfulness. I
am logged into MS Communities through the Internet. Using Outlook's
Newsreader, I've come to this message by two routes: through
"msnews.microsoft.com" and through "news.verizon.net". Through msnews, I
get a message that I need to log in to the community, but the button doesn't
seem to do anything--it won't log me in, regardless of whether I'm logged in
over on the community website. Through verizon, I don't get a rating
option.
Joe
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> Well, I'm quite sure I know why it happens. You lack the resources
> necessary (in Vista's opinion) to adequately run the Aero personalization
> theme. (or at least that part of it.) Something will probably load up your
> ram to the point of paging to the Virtual Memory beyond some Vista defined
> point. I have 3 gigs of ram, and a 400 gig half full hard drive set, and I
> still pop out of Vista Aero if I get a huge amount going. Of course, it's
> likely you and I demand more of the system than the average user.
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>> Thanks, Mark. That ("1") is my current setting. But it won't "stick,"
>> and tomorrow (or the next day), I'll find that it has mysteriously been
>> reset to "0."
>>
>> Would modifying it directly in the registry, rather than through Control
>> Panel make any difference in the the permanence of the setting?
>>
>> Any thoughts/clues about what might be resetting the key? I've done a
>> little bit of troubleshooting, but I haven't been able to pinpoint
>> anything that seems to be involved.
>>
>> "Mark L. Ferguson" <> wrote in
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>>> [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
>>> "DragFullWindows"="1"
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>>>>I can go into the "Personalization" area of Control Panel, and under the
>>>>"Window Color and Appearance/Effects" section, I can check the box to
>>>>"show window contents whle dragging." So far, so good; I can see the
>>>>contents while I drag the windows around my screen. I can even reboot
>>>>and have the setting remain intact.
>>>>
>>>> But frequently (several times a week!), the setting somehow turns
>>>> itself off, and I'm back to dragging around empty boxes. I have to go
>>>> through the whole process to check the box again. That gets extremely
>>>> annoying. It seems pretty random--at least I haven't been able to find
>>>> any activity that consistently resets the feature.
>>>>
>>>> Is there any way to make that setting stick permanently? Is there
>>>> another place to change the setting? Is there a Registry setting I can
>>>> add that will set the feature on every time I reboot?
>>>
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