Aero works, but weird things happen

I activated Aero and tried it out. Love the looks of it, but once I had it running I noticed that everytime I'd come back into the system from a display power down (from Screen Saver), the desktop would slow down to a crawl. I thought at first it was locked up but I saw the mouse cursor was still moving. So I did CTRL-ALT-DEL to look at Task Manager, and it took literally at least a couple of minutes for the control screen to appear so I could even select TM.

It seems that once TM appears the system "snaps" back to normal. But it happens like clockwork every time after the monitor has gone into it's power down mode. When it's not in this state Aero seems to work correctly.

richc46 said:

Go to device manager and check your drivers. Have a good graphics card? How about memory, have enough?

You can also try this link to MS.


Troubleshoot problems with Windows Aero

Using MS stock drivers with my 7600GT. Card works fine. Will take a look at the link.

Running with 6GB of RAM.

logicearth said:

Does the problem happen when not using Aero?

Should have said that - it does not.

Thanks Capt. Jack. I'm planning to try this again a bit later. I have a GT250 waiting in the wings to replace my 7600GT. I'll roll that in first and then see what happens.