Solved graphics card update messed up areo

[FisherPric3]

So here is the story. i updated my graphics driver and a majority of my display is just weird. my transparency disappeared and i no longer have tab previews when i mouse over an icon in the task bar. so i ran the transparency troubleshooter and it came up with color depth to low and desktop windows manager service is not running. problem really is that the service is running and my monitor is set to true color 32 bit depth. i took a print screen snapshot to clearify a little.

if you notice there is more desktop room under my task bar in which my mouse can venture and i could place icons on. if anybody can help it would be greatly appreciated.

 

[bobkn]

What drivers are showing in Device Manager?

At a guess, you're on the Windows generic driver. No Aero Glass with that.

 

[FisherPric3]

i downloaded the last working driver on my computer from nvidia.com and it the problem still persists all the same issues. iv tried reinstalling the driver already that did not work either.

 

[bobkn]

i downloaded the last working driver on my computer from nvidia.com and it the problem still persists all the same issues. iv tried reinstalling the driver already that did not work either.

Let me clarify:

Which drivers are actually in use?

 

[FisherPric3]

this is the driver details. sorry for the late response im not getting my notifications.

 

[M1GU31]

uninstall your video driver,reboot then download the previous driver before the latest driver.Also make sure it's using a theme with aero and not aero basic.

 

[bobkn]

this is the driver details. sorry for the late response im not getting my notifications.

OK, the NVidia drivers are installed. I'm not sure what the problem might be.

 

[FisherPric3]

uninstall your video driver,reboot then download the previous driver before the latest driver.Also make sure it's using a theme with aero and not aero basic.

trick is when i reboot without the driver installed it locks up. so i booted in safe mode and installed the drivers

 

[boogieboy]

Uninstall the drivers from Control Panel... and re-install drivers and don't forget to restart in between install/uninstall.

 

[FisherPric3]

Uninstall the drivers from Control Panel... and re-install drivers and don't forget to restart in between install/uninstall.

i tried uninstalling from the control panel like you said and i am still having an issue. i have another picture for further explanation. please somebody help me out here im so lost.

Update: i have tried uninstalling (from the device manager and the control panel) and re installing with a restart in between and i am still experiencing isues the trobleshooter recognizes FAKE issues and says that it fixes them and still i have no areo.

 

[Maguscreed]

Last time I saw this happen all I had to do was rerun the windows experience score from the system panel.
It realized it was being stupid and everything was good again.

 

[FisherPric3]

Last time I saw this happen all I had to do was rerun the windows experience score from the system panel.
It realized it was being stupid and everything was good again.

what is the windows experience score?

 

[Maguscreed]

control panel -> system (you may have to set small icons in view)
Click windows experience index
then at bottom right click re-run assessment.
Do this while nothing else is running on the system to get the best score you can.

Screen may flicker while it's running, that's normal.

 

[FisherPric3]

close everything i had running and i did the re-assessment. then restarted my computer and im still getting the same issue. this is ridiculous. thanx for the idea though.

 

[Maguscreed]

Sorry to hear it, you'll probably need to do a complete wipe of the driver with driver sweeper or something, I would link you but apparently the link I had for it is no longer good.

 

[PessA666]

Hi got the same problem started couple of days ago, right after i updated ccc to latest version.
did a rollback and all looked fine but after installing the old drivers the problem returned...
It looks like a windows setting is corrupt and it allows offscreen desktop, my left border is not solid any more and if i print screen i can see the extra useless desktop wallpaper. is there a tweak that "closes the border" like a reg edit that allows manual overwrite of the screenborders?
Aero if out too but i dont really care about that..

 

[FisherPric3]

Hi got the same problem started couple of days ago, right after i updated ccc to latest version.
did a rollback and all looked fine but after installing the old drivers the problem returned...
It looks like a windows setting is corrupt and it allows offscreen desktop, my left border is not solid any more and if i print screen i can see the extra useless desktop wallpaper. is there a tweak that "closes the border" like a reg edit that allows manual overwrite of the screenborders?
Aero if out too but i dont really care about that..

sounds like my exact problem. i which i could help but i have found no solution.

 

[PessA666]

Already backing up my files to do a clean windows install... the problem is new and nobody knows how to solve this...
The funny thing is I have dualboot on my system with win7 & 8 and have the exact same Xtreme-G 12-9 driver installed without any issues on 8. If I find a solution I will post it. Did u try an older driver? before 12-4? I heard there where some issues so going to try that as a next step.

 

[FisherPric3]

to anybody who is reading this with the same problem i solved the issue i had some third party video drivers for an iphone app. if you have run out of solutions check your device manager and rid of all unnecessary display adapters.