Color scheme and personalize button have disappeared.

Hi, I'm new here. I just bought a laptop 2 days ago. Acer aspire 4736z. My OS is windows 7 home basic. I transfered some files form my old laptop to my new one. Suddenly I noticed that when I go to Control Panel > Appearance > display > change color scheme the personalization of colors for is not there. On my dekstop, i tried to find the "personalize" button when i right click, but no luck! its not also there. I would appreciate any advice and help. thanks guys!!

There was an almost identical question posted on the Dell users forum about Win 7 Basic. I can't find out anything about what is included in the Basic version but from two posts, on different brand PC's, I suspect they are not available in the Basic version.

I did see that the video can be an issue with some of the Win 7 "eye candy".

Venths said:

fireberd said:

There was an almost identical question posted on the Dell users forum about Win 7 Basic. I can't find out anything about what is included in the Basic version but from two posts, on different brand PC's, I suspect they are not available in the Basic version.

I did see that the video can be an issue with some of the Win 7 "eye candy".

With respect to this, I have few questions for you:

* Did you have this option when you bought the Laptop ?

* Did you install any new program before this issue have occurred?

thanks for the quick response guys! windows 7 was already installed when i bought my laptop. I installed acoustic emission (electrical engineering diagnostic application) and microsoft office 2007.

i'll try updating my graphics card software. :)

fireberd said:

There was an almost identical question posted on the Dell users forum about Win 7 Basic. I can't find out anything about what is included in the Basic version but from two posts, on different brand PC's, I suspect they are not available in the Basic version.

I did see that the video can be an issue with some of the Win 7 "eye candy".

i tried updating but it's still the same

Brink said:

Hello Incuboy, and welcome to Seven Forums.

Do you have a Aero theme selected? The Windows Color and Appearance window will not show unless you do. See warning under step 2 below for more details on this.

Window Color and Appearance - Change

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Hi Shawn thanks for your response. I don't have AERO theme. I only have Windows 7 basic and Windows standard when I go to "Color Scheme". And also when I right click on an empty space on my desktop, the Personalize button is not there. Attached here is an image of my desktop. I also tried downloading the system reg key for enabling the Window Color and Appearance, rebooted my laptop but still n luck. Thanks Shawn.

I see. Thank you for help and advice guys. I appreciate it. Thanks seven forums!