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You can open Group Policy by clicking on start and typing in gpedit.msc.

If the computer was previously joined to a domain, it could have retained some settings from the previous environment. Check Group Policy Settingsįinally, you can also check Group Policy settings if you are running Windows Pro or higher versions like Ultimate, etc. In this case, you want to choose Adjust for best appearance. You can read my previous post on how to change the settings for performance options in Windows. Sometimes people disable visual effects to increase performance and that could be the reason why the Aero effects are not working. One other setting you can check are the visual effects. Again, this will only fix your issue if a basic or non-Aero theme was accidentality set. Under Aero Themes, pick from any in the list. Right-click on the desktop and choose Personalize. In this case, switching back to an Aero theme may work for you. Switch to Aero ThemeĪnother issue that can occur is if another basic theme got selected for your system rather than an Aero theme. It will give you suggestions or will try to fix the problem automatically. to determine if it can support the Aero effects or not. This will check the video card drivers, capabilities, memory, etc. Here you will see an option called Display Aero Desktop Effects under Appearance and Personalization. To do this, click on Start and type in troubleshooting to open the Troubleshoot Computer Problems window. I’ve heard there is a registry hack out there to enable Aero in Windows 7, but I don’t think it has worked for many people, so I won’t mention it here! You can also try running the Aero Troubleshooter in Windows 7 to see if that fixes the issue. If you’re running Windows 7 in a virtual environment like VMWare, Virtual PC 2007, or VirtualBox, you will not be able to enable the Aero feature in Windows 7. Unfortunately, Windows 7 Aero requires a higher version of DirectX than previous versions of Windows. Click the Rate this computer or Refresh Now button to get a score from 1 to 7.9.

On my copy, my rating had not been established yet for WMI. You can get to the Windows Experience Index dialog in Windows 7 by going to Control Panel, clicking on System and Security, and then clicking on Check the Windows Experience Index.