Software that forces basic colour scheme

[Orbital Shark]

I thought i'd start compiling a list of software that forces Windows 7 (and indeed Vista) to automatically revert to the Standard/Basic colour scheme, thus disabling the Aero effects within the Windows GUI.

This is not a fault with Windows, the software must be calling for resources/environment variables that are either not available or different in Vista/Seven.

WinAVI Video Converter
M2VPlayer
PowerDVD Blu ray edition - thanks to swarfega for this
MediaCoder but only for preview - thanks to LePoilu for this

Yes, the list is small but it will grow as I find more.

If anyone knows of any more then by all means please contribute to this thread.

Thank you

 

[Alan Wake]

ALLPlayer and Media Player Classic (the newest version as far as I know works fine with aero).

 

[johngalt]

Older JAVA apps if you have older Java JREs installed
VB6 and VB.Net apps that do not have a Manifest making them theme aware

 

[Win7User512]

Registry Mechanic, I think.

 

[johngalt]

PowerDVD if it decides to run in modes other than EVR, which supports Aero.

 

[Orbital Shark]

Registry Mechanic, I think.

Just tested & Registry Mechanic works fine, even with Aero active

Thanks anyway

 

[Orbital Shark]

PowerDVD if it decides to run in modes other than EVR, which supports Aero.

I've just installed PowerDVD 9 & it had no effect on Windows GUI. What's the EVR setting you speak of?

 

[johngalt]

I had another discussion going in another thread about how PowerDVD can sometimes force Basic if it reverts to VR9(I think that is what it is called) from EVR, or else reverts to a plain old overlay....

Usually only happens on systems with not enough graphic power, but was more notorious for happening on Vista often enough.

 

[Orbital Shark]

ok, cheers man

 

[swarfega]

Ive run PowereDVD Blu Ray edition which does switch to basic mode. Id think my graphics card would be powerful enough to cope with both.

 

[LePoilu]

MediaCoder but only for preview.

 

[Win7User512]

Just tested & Registry Mechanic works fine, even with Aero active

Thanks anyway

Sorry. I hadn't used it for a while.

 

[nechan]

VLC Player sometimes switches the theme to basic but only with certain movie files, i have to take a closer look the next time it happens.

 

[G2gCya]

window live messenger when installing it with compatible mode to vista sp1 forced the colour scheme to basic.

 

[vinaydargar]

Also, GTA:San Andreas. I don't know if that comes under software, but...oh well.

 

[hybridfan]

Media Player Classic depending on what output you choose, overlay is fine but other ones like EVR will cause switch.

 

[Seven Eleven]

I've just installed PowerDVD 9 & it had no effect on Windows GUI. What's the EVR setting you speak of?

Enhanced Video Renderer.
from MPC guide that i found on internets:

...newest renderer that comes out from Redmond and available in Windows Vista (and XP if .NET Framework 2 or newer is installed). It is different than VMR7/VMR9 in that it do not have features like VMR/YUV mixer mode and are dependent completely on Direct3D. It supports MPEG2 (Windows XP and Vista) and H.264 (Vista only) hardware acceleration in DXVA2 mode.

Media Player Classic depending on what output you choose, overlay is fine but other ones like EVR will cause switch.

it works fine here with EVR Sync. DXVA too. maybe it causes switch because the video card has porblems running Aero.

 

[bradf52]

add tiger woods 2007 to the mix.