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i when to set my screen saver for 5 min and noticed that i can not chane the wait time at all. it is set to 30 and then disabled. i checked my log in as i am IT and i am not a part of any group policies that affect my screen saver. any ideas. also yes i am a local and a domain admin on this...

Hi! First I watched movies and used pc fine, but I guess it was next time I tried to watch some movies, things got pretty weird. I connected pc to projector via DVI to HDMI cable. My htpc windows user doesn't have aero, so desktop picture was excellent. As soon as I opened video file using any...

I somehow set compatibility mode on, so I no longer have the Aero desktop features. ie no preview of minimised folders or 3d effects etc. How do I switch it off to get back to normal ?

[SOLVED] Possible to customize Flip3D / Windows Switcher ? Hi people ! I have been using a Firefox plugin called Foxtab for quiet some time, now. I am really accustomed to it and I would like to know if it was possible to customize the Aero Flip3D command so that it can have the same...

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Hi, I am using Windows 7 Build 7229. When i go onto magnifier and select docked mode it disbles aero on my pc and goes to the basic theme. I have to exit and close to get back to aero theme. It disables desktop windows manager but i dont know why. It works in full screen and lens mode. But in...

Well my pc had broke so it's on the warranty. My uncle give me a PC to use until my is as new, i couldn't resist... format-c install 7 :D. The PC: HD --> 80GB RAM -->512MB Graphics --> ATI Radeon 200 Xpress Processor --> Intel Pentium D 3.0 GHz Windows 7 it's working perfect, it's...

Hey guys, I have an Nvidia 8500 GT graphics card, and noticed that I couldnt use any of the vista themes besides the basic theme. When I troubleshooted (real word? :p) it said that my card couldnt do Aero. I know for a fact my card CAN do this, because A) I have run a Windows 7 dual boot...

I've done a fair amount of reading and searching on CPU Usage in Windows 7 (both Beta & RC 1) and haven't had any luck with this issue yet. The machine I'm using contains: Asus P4P800 motherboard Intel P4 2.8 GHz dual core 2.5 GB of ram GeForce 7800 GS 256MB Clean install of Windows 7...

Windows only: Application launcher 7stacks adds the Stacks functionality of Mac's OS X to Windows 7, including Aero transparency effects that blend into your taskbar perfectly. Link Removed LifeHacker

I am reposting this under Desktop Customization as I feel the sub-forum entitled Tweaks, Guides, and HOWTO's under the support section does not get enough traffic and easily overlooked. I feel this is an important improvement for your desktop I'm going to provide a whole series of registry...

Last night I installed windows 7 x86. i clicked on my computer it said 2gz ram then i installed some drivers and clicked on my computer and it had 4gz ram. it had Aero and when i installed battlefield 2142 and played it, it felt like 4gz. today i installed black and white and installed the...

Anyone know if there's anyway to completely disable ClearType? I've went to control panel->display->adjust cleartype text and unchecked "Turn on ClearType" But that only got rid of about 30% of it. I still found it in most windows menus and the like. Disabling Aero as well got rid of more of it...

So im using build 7229. But when i use magnifer its good. But when i switch to docked mode where it shows a bar at the top of the screen my desktop process thing stops and the theme goes to basic from aero. And i have to reenable it to get aero back. Why. This happened in 7100 and other builds...

I installed windows 7 yesterday and it ran fine using the standard theme, but as soon as I changed to aero i noticed small red lines and pixels appearing when the aero effect is used. It seems to be a mixture of occasional red pixels and sometimes big red lines. Aero runs smoothly it just looks...

So whenever I move the start menu to the top it does this weird crap. I think the msn stuff in the shots should explain my frustration. If I move the line there down, the blur follows it but doesn't follow it back up! Link Removed due to 404 Error Link Removed due to 404 Error The only way to...

right, a while ago i dual booted windows 7 onto my vista running laptop and it works perfectly. It is a huge improvment on vista, it is faster, better designed and its new features are very useful. Because of this sucess i know am trying to dual boot it onto my xp running desktop. Unfortunatly...

im running build 7201 32 bit i dont know how but my graphics card rating (windows experience index) has zoomed up to 6.2 from 5.1 in all of the previous builds. the rating for aero still remains at 5.8 though and all other parameters are unchanged. is this a glitch? btw i have a dell xps m1530

Right now I've been trying to play Half Life 2, Team Fortress 2, Call of Juarez and STALKER SoC. All these games I should be able to play at high if not highest settings yet all of them have extremely low fps. The stutter is horrible games freeze often and I can't do anything for most of the...

So i installed W7 on my Toshiba Portege M700 a while back and i finally got around to installing all the drivers. Toshiba has a long list of W7 drivers for both x64 and x86 available for download on their website. I got bored of installing all those drivers and i just kinda reached an "eh, i'll...