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Aero theme changes to Basic
Hello everyone, I have this strange problem I've never seemed to have before.
As the title says, my theme (which I have as Windows Aero) randomly and unexpectedly changes to Windows Basic giving me that pop-up message in the corner telling me it's been changed. I have my own personal theme saved (just Aero with a background and personal window color settings, nothing downloaded or installed, only factory options). Now my personalization window doesnt let me change back to Aero or to any theme besides basic or high contrast, it just keeps the window color byt changes the background; simply nothing works in trying to change it back. I've tried every option there is and it looks like some of the settings are disabled and will not show up.
I've attached a screencap of what the windows look like when opened. On the left is the personalization window and on the right is what opens when I click Window Color.
I have quite a bit of computer expertise so I know this isn't me making a foolish error or not knowing where to click. This has only happened once before in my year of using 7 (which was 2 days ago). Fixing it required a restart but I'm definitely not inclined to keep restarting if this is going to keep happening.
Any ideas on what's causing the problem and how to fix this?