I left the laptop powered off for two days, came in this morning, turned it on and it decided to add several additional drivers - at which point Aero starting working properly. Odd. Thanks for the suggestions.
On Nov 13, 2009, at 4:53 PM, Bryan Garmon wrote: > I'm trying to get Aero enabled on a Lenovo T61 laptop. It was previously > running Windows 7 and Aero with Aero Peak was working flawlessly. The laptop > was wiped and reloaded with Server 2008 R2 x64 and since the reload I can't > get aero to enable. It's running an NVidia Quadro NVS 140M video card. > > I have enabled the "Desktop Experience" feature which also forced me to > enable the "Ink and Handwriting Services." After doing this, I also had to > change the status of the Themese service from Disabled to Automatic and start > that service. Based on the documentation I've read that's supposed to be all > that is required to allow you to then change the Personalization to use the > Aero themes. I can see the Aero Themes section is now added, but the Windows > 7 theme is greyed out. > > I've tried the latest drivers from Lenovo, I've tried the latest drivers from > NVidia and neither seem to have an impact. > > Any ideas? I hate to say it but I've become addicted to Aero Peek. > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
