Win Aero doesn't show up in Vista

[Jdmtxux]

My Windows Vista Home Basic PC is having a problem w/ Windows Aero, or the Windows Basic theme- one day after rebooting I found that Windows Aero (was not in the list of options when I right click desktop and --> Personalization --> Windows Color and Appearance. The Windows Basic and Windows Std don't even appear on the list. How should I solve this problem? Tried rebooting the computer again- it doesn't help.

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Dell Inspiron 531
W Vista Home Basic
w/ 2.1 GHz x2 AMD Processor
1 GB Dual Channel Memory
220 GB HD Capacity

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

I thought windows aero wasn't in vista home basic!

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/products/compare?t1=tab03

Look ^

 

[Pyree]

Open regedit and search for Hkey_Current_User\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM in Composition change the value of the entry to 1. Restart and try enable Aero again.

 

[Jdmtxux]

Thanks for the help, but I solved the problem yesterday by restarting the themes service. How do I delete a thread?

 

[Pyree]

The moderators will do that.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

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[Jdmtxux]

Best answer selected by jdmtxux.