Aero disabled and troubleshooter no help

A Guy said:

Welcome to Seven Forums emintz. Suggest you run the System File Checker

SFC /SCANNOW Command - System File Checker

If you have patched your system to use 3rd party themes, or changed any other system files, you will need to change them again after. As this will restore the original system files.

A Guy

Thanks. I have not used 3rd party themes and I have to manually changed any system files. I have run SFC /SCANNOW. It reports no errors:

2011-05-16 06:51:01, Info CSI 00000009 [SR] Verifying 1 components
2011-05-16 06:51:01, Info CSI 0000000a [SR] Beginning Verify and Repair transaction
2011-05-16 06:51:01, Info CSI 0000000c [SR] Verify complete
2011-05-16 06:51:01, Info CSI 0000000d [SR] Repairing 0 components
2011-05-16 06:51:01, Info CSI 0000000e [SR] Beginning Verify and Repair transaction
2011-05-16 06:51:01, Info CSI 00000010 [SR] Repair complete

Mark Phelps said:

When I was using Stardock's Impulse a while back, it started out by forcing my PC into a non-Aero Classic desktop mode. And it required staying in that mode in order to work. Now, while that was an OLD version, and they may have changed that, you might have to remove Impulse to get Aero back working.

Thanks for the suggestion... I uninstalled Impulse but that is not the problem either.

A Guy:

Thanks for the suggestions. Unfortunately, I've already done all of these things (and just tried them again). In particular, the Microsoft Fixit you recommend just tells me to upgrade to a version of Windows that supports Aero. But I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit and Aero previously worked for me.

That did the trick, thanks!

A Guy said:

emintz, assuming you have a legit copy of Windows, then there is a deeper issue then no Aero if MS even detects the wrong version. At this time I'm going to suggest a Repair Install

Repair Install

It will save all your files and programs. Since you have already reset your system files, then the repair install will hopefully just restore proper operation. It is actually quite easy, and straight forward as you'll see.

A Guy