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Aero stops working, won't work again until restart
Can't quite nail down when this happens but from time to time the Aero effects will stop working. So far it does seem to happen if the screen has been blank for awhile (screen saver) but something else has to happen as well because that by itself doesn't cause the issue. This last time it happened when I turned on my TV to HDMI which in turn causes the screens to flash as the 'new monitor' is added and my desktop is extended. I do like that it dynamically extends (or reduces) based on an active signal (yay).
What happens is the glass effect disappears and the taskbar becomes a greyish color. If I run the troubleshooter with the autofix, it will sometimes fix the issue for a second but then it reverts back to the problem. I've tried killing dwm.exe and doing the net stop/start uxsms, but that might work for 5 seconds before it reverts again.
For some reason, 7 is determined that it can't work, even though it can and does (for a few seconds). If I restart the computer, it works just fine again. But would be nice to not have to restart the computer each and every time it happens.
I do keep up to date on my drivers so that's not an issue, although I may be contacting Nvidia to see if the screen flashing (blanks out) can be stopped as that gets annoying. I'm not sure if it's a 7 or Nvidia issue, but if it's possible to have the screens not blank out when a monitor adds/drops, then they can likely fix it.
Thanks in advance.