Windows 7: Aero problem, please help...

[Kratos Aurion]

Hi guys. I'm new here, and this is my first post. I wasn't sure if this belonged here or in the themes section, but after going there I thought it would fit here. Anyway, if I made a mistake with the section i'm sorry

Ok, on with the problem: I bought a new computer a week ago (ASUS N53JQ-SX145V), and in fact i'm using it to create this thread Anyway, after I bought it I installed the programs I had on my previous laptop and moved my personal files to this new laptop. I'm loving it, it's like 10 times faster than my previous laptop

So yesterday I installed Uniblue PowerSuite, a PC Utilities/Registry Cleaner like program to keep my Pc running smoothly. And right after I corrected the "supposed" problems my PC had, the PC rebooted and after it started again I noticed a problem: certain Aero animations were "turned off".

I managed to turn them on again, but there's still one that looks different: it's difficult to explain but when you right-click on a file, on the wallpaper, etc. that menu appears with a few choices. Usually in windows 7 aero, the right-click menu fades in instead popping out of the blue which is what happens to me now. This also happens to me when I put my cursor above files/anything and for those help baloons.

Basically my computer is incapable of using fade in/out animations. I tried everything, from reactivating Aero to keep rebooting the PC and nothing worked.

Please help me here. Please tell me I don't have to reinstall windows 7...

 

[Maguscreed]

Just to be clear, have you gone into system -> advanced settings -> performance settings -> adjust for best appearance

It's possible one of these applications you installed changed something in the performance features to 'improve performance' at the cost of simple effects. Anyhow, that's where the 'fade' settings are located and adjusting for best appearance should turn those settings back on.

 

[Kratos Aurion]

Yeah I tried that, in fact I have the "adjust for best appearence" option selected and it still doesn't work

 

[stormy13]

Kratos Aurion, welcome to the Seven Forums?

If everything was working as it should before,

I installed Uniblue PowerSuite

then the problem isn't with Windows but with whatever it was that program changed.

I tried everything, from reactivating Aero to keep rebooting the PC and nothing worked.

Did you try rolling back the changes that that program made? If not you should. If you did and it didn't fix it, then try running system restore to the last restore point before you installed it.

 

[Kratos Aurion]

I tried un-doing what that piece of s*** of a program did, and it didn't work.

Actually, when I bought the PC the HD came with the option of restore points turned off :sarc: I only found this out after all this happened, so restore points are not an option.

 

[Maguscreed]

It's possible you can find something in this tutorial that will help you. It offers multiple methods for changing visual features. If the primary method doesn't work perhaps one of the alternate methods will kick it back. http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1908-visual-effects-settings-change.html

 

[Kratos Aurion]

It's possible you can find something in this tutorial that will help you. It offers multiple methods for changing visual features. If the primary method doesn't work perhaps one of the alternate methods will kick it back. http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1908-visual-effects-settings-change.html

Ok thank you Maguscreed, i'll try that.

In the meantime let me ask something: Isn't there a way to put Aero to it's default settings? I was asking that myself the whole time I was trying to solve this problem.

 

[stormy13]

You tired this?

Support: How can I undo changes made by Uniblue programs? - Uniblue

 

[Kratos Aurion]

You tired this?

Support: How can I undo changes made by Uniblue programs? - Uniblue

I already uninstalled the program. Damn, maybe that could have worked

 

[Kratos Aurion]

Sorry for the double-post, but...

It's possible you can find something in this tutorial that will help you. It offers multiple methods for changing visual features. If the primary method doesn't work perhaps one of the alternate methods will kick it back. http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1908-visual-effects-settings-change.html

I tried that regedit method, and you know what? IT WORKED :shock: I thought I had to reinstall windows, but thanks to this tutorial I learned a valuable lesson.

Thanks alot for pointing out the tutorial guys, it really helped me out

 

[Maguscreed]

Yeah if you are ever curious about something they have a ridiculous number of in-depth tutorials here.
There's even a full index of them here:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/257-windows-7-tutorial-index.html

 

[Kratos Aurion]

Yeah if you are ever curious about something they have a ridiculous number of in-depth tutorials here.
There's even a full index of them here:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/257-windows-7-tutorial-index.html

Thanks Maguscreed. Someday when I need help, i'll take a look

 

[Maguscreed]

oh and to answer above, I don't know of any simple way to restore aero to it's system default. Changing the theme to default is simple enough, but that is purely visual.