Recent content by kcorbitt

I have confirmed that the new mesh update solves this problem! Right click on the mesh icon in the taskbar and select "check for updates" - after the update finishes and you restart, the issue is gone.

Interesting, I use Mesh as well. I wonder if it is related to that. Is there anyone who has encountered this problem who does not use Mesh? UPDATE: it looks like Mesh might be the culprit after all. It appears that mesh disabling aero is a known problem, but they are rolling out an update...

Ah, I'm sorry to hear that. :( Be sure to post back here if you find a fix for the issue. I just installed windows 7 on a second system - my laptop. This time I ran an upgrade installation on vista, instead of a clean install. I'm wondering now whether it is a problem with the installation...

Ok, thanks for the suggestions. I already tried installing the latest graphics driver, but I'll try your other suggestions as well. Thanks.

My theme is currently set to the default - "Windows 7." I even went so far as to delete the custom theme that it automatically generated, but the problem continues to recur.

Thanks for the quick reply. I have uploaded two screenshots - "before.png" is what my desktop normally looks like (the default windows 7 theme), and "after.png" is how it looks after I have opened a file explorer window. As you can see, my taskbar and the border on the current window both turn...

Hey everyone, I just did a fresh install of Windows 7 build 7000 on a machine with a Windows Experience Index graphics for aero subscore of 4.1 - which should be sufficient to run aero no problem. I am running into what seems to be a bug. I have my system set up with the default aero theme...