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    Vista spontenously resets to VistaBasic scheme instead of Aero

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by alect, Nov 28, 2007.

  1. alect

    alect Notebook Consultant

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    Vista working pretty well on my system, with only a few minor hickups. One of these is that spontaneously Vista resets the display scheme to Basic from Aero. No idea why - all that I can tell is that I fired up a media player when this happened (Media Player Classic, although I think it also happens with RealPlayer). Don't know if those are connected, but nothing else happened at the same time.

    Anyone else have this problem?
     
    alect, Nov 28, 2007
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  2. orev

    orev Notebook Virtuoso

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    Some programs cannot run when vista is in aero mode, and vista will detect this and revert to the non-aero mode. There's a balloon that pops up and tell you this when it happens. The old media player probably caused it, and it should switch back when you exit the program.
     
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