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Aero theme disappeared!
Hello,
I just recently got a new HP ENVY 15 running Windows 7. Up until yesterday everything was running fine. I believe I compiled a LaTeX document, and a package was missing, so I launched the package manager, and suddenly a message appeared that said that the aero color scheme had been disabled. Since then, I have been unable to reenable the aero glass effect or any of the other fancy features. I doubt LaTeX is what caused the problem, but that's the last thing I was doing at the time.
Since then, I've tried EVERYTHING to try to fix this, and nothing has worked! I've restarted my computer several times. I've closed all programs and disabled all unnecessary processes and tried to reenable aero and that didn't work.
I believe the issue is that for some reason Desktop Composition is disabled, so the Desktop Window Manager isn't working. I tried editing the Composition and CompositionPolicy in the registry - they immediately switch back! I tried doing net stop uxsms followed by net start uxsms, and that didn't work either. I tried updating my drivers but they are already up to date. I tried rerunning the Windows Experience Index which did not do anything.
The event viewer shows some suspicious messages. At about the time where the issue started, an event is listed:
A request to disable the Desktop Window Manager was made by process (Skype)
However, I've tried ending Skype with no results, and also, I had been using Skype for the last few days with no problems. Following that message are numerous of these:
The Desktop Window Manager has exited with code (0x40010004)
The Desktop Window Manager was unable to start because the desktop composition setting is disabled
The Desktop Window Manager has exited with code (0xc00002fe)
The Desktop Window Manager was unable to start because the desktop composition setting is disabled
The Desktop Window Manager has exited with code (0x80070224)
etc.
I've also tried going to control panel > system and security > find and fix problems > appearance and personalization > display aero desktop effects, and running the troubleshooter, but it said that the problem couldn't be detected.
Does anyone have any idea what could be wrong? I've tried every suggestion I can find on the web and nothing has worked.