How to force enable the Windows 7 Aero theme?

Hi i have an LG p1 express dual laptop that has 2x 40GB partitioned drives with XP on one and 7 on the other.



Before I had 7, Vista was on the second partition. The aero theme worked completely fine. Smoothly, fast and looked great. But when i installed Windows 7, i put on all the drivers and everything works fine except for the Aero Theme.



Now i now that the aero theme isnt the whole os, and i dont have to have it, but it would be a nice addition to 7. On the troubleshooter it said my video card didnt support it. So i was thinking if it worked on Vista, then could maybe somehow you enable the aero theme on 7 but in the way it was enabled on vista? If you get me.



Thanks|||Follow these steps in the instruction below to force enable Windows Aero Glass Transparency effect on system with video card (graphic accelerator adapter) that does not meet the WDDM (Windows Display Driver Model ) specifications, which provides functionality required to render the desktop and applications using Desktop Window Manager, a compositing window manager running on top of Direct3D 9.0Ex, and provides device driver interfaces required by Direct3D 10 runtime used in Windows 7.

1. Open Registry Editor (RegEdit).

2. Navigate to the following registry key

:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\W…

If the DWM registry key is not found, right click on Windows and then select New -> Key to create new branch and name it as DWM.

3. In the right details pane, create a new DWORD (32-bit value) named UseMachineCheck, and set its value to 0.

4. In the right details pane, create a new DWORD (32-bit) Value named Blur, and set its value to 0.

5. In the right details pane, create a new DWORD (32-bit) Value named Animations, and set its value to 0.

6. Restart the Desktop Window Manager Session Manager in Services in Control Panel (type Services.msc in Start Search), or run the following commands in a command prompt with administrator privileges:

net stop uxsms

net start uxsms

7. Attempt to enable and apply Windows Aero in Windows 7. Restart the computer if required.

The trick above also may work to enable Aero on Windows 7 and Windows Vista installed on virtual machine (VM), especially in Virtual PC 2007. VPC 2007 uses S3 as virtual display adapter, which is capable of running Windows Aero. When the guest Windows 7 or Vista OS uses software-based hardware check after hack above, it will find only S3, couple with actual Aero-capable video card, may allow Aero to run in VMs as in real physical machine.





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