Finding out whats turned Aero off...

FirebarUK · 27 Mar 2008 at 11:20

I obviously have an application that is causing me to run in basic mode, rather than with Aero. Does anyone know how I can find out exactly what application is causing this? I've tried having a hunt, but its not obvious to me.

Thanks.

SentineL-X · 27 Mar 2008 at 11:32

What applications are running?

Snakedoctor · 27 Mar 2008 at 11:36

Could it be related to your GPU or GPU drivers?

FirebarUK · 27 Mar 2008 at 11:40

Well this is what I was thinking, but my colleague is using the same Intel 965 drivers without problems.

I've tried removing all surplus apps from the tray too - I thought these might be the cause...

Snakedoctor · 27 Mar 2008 at 11:41

What score do you get in WEI for graphics? If its below 2, you wont get aero unless you hack it.

FirebarUK · 27 Mar 2008 at 11:41

Hrrrm I found it. If I turned off my external monitor, then went into the windows appearance panel, I can turn Aero back on.

So in that respect, it must be a display driver issue

Thanks all.

Monkeynut · 27 Mar 2008 at 16:04

Updated your drivers?

Vertigo · 27 Mar 2008 at 16:09

Java?

Older versions of the Sun Java VM caused Aero to switch off whenever you opened a webpage which used it. The latest version cures the problem.

EDIT: Ooops, didn't see you'd fixed it - teach me to read to the end of the thread in future

Countcussy · 27 Mar 2008 at 16:11

Quick time tray icon causes this on my laptop. (Vista Business)

Caged · 27 Mar 2008 at 18:42

Countcussy said:
Quick time tray icon causes this on my laptop. (Vista Business)

Not here (Ultimate x64).