Fresh vista re-format

just got my shiny new 1530 yesterday, decided to re-install the OS to make sure its running as fast as it can, but now some of the silly, yet pretty aspects of vista that i saw last night are gone, u know... the half translucent window headings, that goofy 3d window switching thing... do i have to put any of that shyte back on here to get that back?

 

hmm it seems like Aero theme is not enabled bro , just goto Desktop Personalization control panel and and select "Color and Appearance" and then click down to open the classic propertied and there select Aero theme bro

 

did you install the drivers? sounds like you dont have a good video driver thus windows is disabling aero

 

well, i did the windows update, it had tons of drivers in the installed updates list, along with the 8600m gt driver, do i need any more that that?

 

o hay and i just checked the themes, aero isnt even in there... im definately missing something

 

Is there any chance that the OS you re-installed with was the Vista Basic edition?

 

it says home premium... all i installed so far is the vista disk and the windows update stuff, what other core drivers/ software is there?

 

Did you use the Dell Resource CD to install the necessary drivers-You should do that if you haven't yet-It should scan your system and show what's missing.

Also...

When I clean installed Vista, after I installed my graphics driver, I had to run the Windows Experience Index benchmarking program again. To get to it, open Control Panel-Click System and Maintenance-then click "Check your computer's Windows Experience Index base score." On the screen that appears click "Update My Score" and go through the UAC prompt if you see it.

 

alright, well i ran the index thing and it didnt really change anything, plus it gave me a score of 4.8... if thats out of 10 that cant be right

 

scratch that, its running aero again, thanks for all the help fellas

 

Good to know. Enjoy your notebook.