Problems with getting Aero back

[Goldhat]

Long story short.
When I first bought this computer (Few days before the end of summer in 2011) Aero was working fine with the window preview, glass effect, transparency and other things like that. After a while, I downloaded a thing called GameBooster (I believe it doesnt much to do with this) that changed the computer theme to the basic, XP styled one. After closing the booster it usually changed back to the (working) Aero theme, but suddenly it didnt. Of course, this isnt much of a problem, but its annoying, especially when I got a dark theme and the computer screen pretty much looks like this.

Well, this is more like long story long, but anyways. What I want to do, is I want to change the color of the taskbar, but I cant do it, because the Color Slider doesnt pop up, but this does.

Does anyone know how to get the Color Slider back again? I would really appreciate it.

 

[Bongo]

Welcome to the Seven Forums
Are you using a third party custom theme? If so what did you use to enable custom themes?

Click on start button in the search box type Aero and look for Find and fix problems with transparency and check for problems
Jerry

 

[Goldhat]

Welcome to the Seven Forums
Are you using a third party custom theme? If so what did you use to enable custom themes?

Click on start button in the search box type Aero and look for Find and fix problems with transparency and check for problems
Jerry

I forgot to mention, I already tried that several times. Every time it tells me to close all programs using mirror drives and gives me a few examples, but I dont have them running and I dont even know what is a mirror driver or a program using it.
Also, yes, I am using 3rd party theme, but I cant unfortunately remember the name of the program I used to enable it.

 

[Bongo]

Was it UxStyle Core Beta or Universal Theme Patcher?
Jerry

 

[GianniDPC]

Try:

Open CMD as admin and type: net stop uxsms (let it do it's thing) then type net start uxsms

Do you have your aero back now ?

 

[Goldhat]

Was it UxStyle Core Beta or Universal Theme Patcher?
Jerry

Universal Theme Patcher, I think.
Meanwhile, I'll try the other solution.

 

[Goldhat]

Try:

Open CMD as admin and type: net stop uxsms (let it do it's thing) then type net start uxsms

Do you have your aero back now ?

What exactly am I supposed to do after stopping and starting it? If nothing, then It didnt work.

 

[GianniDPC]

Try:

Open CMD as admin and type: net stop uxsms (let it do it's thing) then type net start uxsms

Do you have your aero back now ?

What exactly am I supposed to do after stopping and starting it? If nothing, then It didnt work.

Yes didn't work then. But try choosing a Standard Aero theme.

 

[Goldhat]

Try:

Open CMD as admin and type: net stop uxsms (let it do it's thing) then type net start uxsms

Do you have your aero back now ?

What exactly am I supposed to do after stopping and starting it? If nothing, then It didnt work.

Yes didn't work then. But try choosing a Standard Aero theme.

That is one of the many things I have tried, nothing.

 

[GianniDPC]

What exactly am I supposed to do after stopping and starting it? If nothing, then It didnt work.

Yes didn't work then. But try choosing a Standard Aero theme.

That is one of the many things I have tried, nothing.

Try stopping all of your theme patchers ! or try doing a System Restore back to the day when it worked.

 

[Goldhat]

Yes didn't work then. But try choosing a Standard Aero theme.

That is one of the many things I have tried, nothing.

Try stopping all of your theme patchers ! or try doing a System Restore back to the day when it worked.

How can I stop them?

About System Restore - The problem is I have no idea when It worked, and I have so much important stuff on my computer I dont want to Restore it from the day I bought it.

 

[Bongo]

Switch to the default Aero theme then
Click on the Start Button type in Services In the search box and then click on Services



Scroll down until you see Desktop Windows Manager Sessions Manager select it in click on the Stop text and let it stop after that click on Start text and see if that works. Your screen may blink when you do this.
Jerry

 

[GianniDPC]

That is one of the many things I have tried, nothing.

Try stopping all of your theme patchers ! or try doing a System Restore back to the day when it worked.

How can I stop them?

About System Restore - The problem is I have no idea when It worked, and I have so much important stuff on my computer I dont want to Restore it from the day I bought it.

Well try to remove the theme patchers from startup and reboot ??!! maybe that helps

 

[Goldhat]

Try stopping all of your theme patchers ! or try doing a System Restore back to the day when it worked.

How can I stop them?

About System Restore - The problem is I have no idea when It worked, and I have so much important stuff on my computer I dont want to Restore it from the day I bought it.

Well try to remove the theme patchers from startup and reboot ??!! maybe that helps

This might sound dumb, but... How do I remove objects from startup?

 

[Goldhat]

Switch to the default Aero theme then
Click on the Start Button type in Services In the search box and then click on Services


Scroll down until you see Desktop Windows Manager Sessions Manager select it in click on the Stop text and let it stop after that click on Start text and see if that works. Your screen may blink when you do this.
Jerry

That one did not work either :/

 

[GianniDPC]

How can I stop them?

About System Restore - The problem is I have no idea when It worked, and I have so much important stuff on my computer I dont want to Restore it from the day I bought it.

Well try to remove the theme patchers from startup and reboot ??!! maybe that helps

This might sound dumb, but... How do I remove objects from startup?

(Windows key) + R and type msconfig
And go to the start-up tab

 

[Goldhat]

Well try to remove the theme patchers from startup and reboot ??!! maybe that helps

This might sound dumb, but... How do I remove objects from startup?

(Windows key) + R and type msconfig
And go to the start-up tab

I didnt find any patcher files from the Startup tab. Only Adobe Acrobat, my antivirus, Intel stuff and Microsoft Windows.

 

[boohbah]

use sfc/scannow. this will reset any system files you may have themed, ie .folders. wmploc , system clock etc, but should sort your problem, then re theme your pc. i believe you dont really need gamebooster. you havent filled in your system spec so i cant be sure but gamebooster is for pretty old ish machines ie vista with 1 GB of ram

SFC /SCANNOW Command - System File Checker - Windows 7 Forums

 

[DeaconFrost]

Honestly, given the amount of time you have spent already, I would just opt for a clean install. If you plan ahead, it can take less than two hours, and you'll be back to where you are now, without the issues.

 

[Goldhat]

Honestly, given the amount of time you have spent already, I would just opt for a clean install. If you plan ahead, it can take less than two hours, and you'll be back to where you are now, without the issues.

I didnt quite understand what you're saying, Im Estonian and learning english for the 4th year.