Comments on: My Vista Aero Glass Turned Itself Off, How Do I Enable it Again?

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:20:59 +0000

Thank you @Cassie
“just a note, on Windows Help & Support it says that your colours should be in 32-bit, not 16-bit, like mine were. just so you all know…”

I realized that one of my monitors was set to 16-bit which is why i wasn’t getting my Aero working again.

By: Bas

Bas — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:00:49 +0000

Thanks man, I forgot I disabled the some services to speed up Vista. Couldn’t find why Aero couldn’t be enabled anymore.

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:39:15 +0000

when i go to system properties the “enable transparent glass” selection isn’t even there. can you tell me what happened please?

By: tsun-dre

tsun-dre — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 21:49:17 +0000

don’t know if anyone will read down this far but… in my quest to totaly optimize my computer i dove into the window services to see what i could turn off evidently i turned off the themes service in vista and this was the reason why my aero theme wasnt showing up after i enabled it again vista started working phew most of you might not have this problem

By: Timothy

Timothy — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:04:17 +0000

i cant run directx9 but is there any other way to get aero to work?

By: LostAndContuse(3)

LostAndContuse(3) — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:13:14 +0000

Haha, nevermind, I restarted the manager, and forgot to check lol. Thanks a million.

By: LostAndContuse(3)

LostAndContuse(3) — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:11:52 +0000

lol, Same problem as the other losts. I restarted manager, went to hi performance in which I didn’t even find the opacity settings in the toolbar, I found aero vista on the properties, clicked on it and it didn’t change a thing, I went back to properties and it had basic highlighted, as if it never changed, I’m on 32 bit…. aghh what’s going on?

By: LostAndComfused(2)

LostAndComfused(2) — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:56:40 +0000

Same as LostAndConfused… Please Help!!

By: LostAndConfused

LostAndConfused — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:27:55 +0000

I did everything that you said and I still have windows basic. Not only that but I no longer have windows aero as a choice when I go to color and appearance. Can you help me?

By: petersmw

petersmw — Sat, 30 May 2009 09:15:28 +0000

I did all of the above and it still didn’t help, the Aero theme was still missing. Well, it turned out that somehow the “Themes” service was disabled. And without that service running you can’t have Aero.

To check this run msconfig and check that a service named “Themes” is enabled. If it’s not, then enable it and then you probably have to reboot. After that check if the Aero theme is available in the Control Panel: Window Color and Appearance as mentioned above.