Aero Theme Disappeared

[snowburnt]

Hi all,

Last night I had a power failure and when I turned on my computer this
morning I had some hard drive problems. It wouldn't recognize my
profile, the event log said that I didn't have access to my ntuser.dat
file. I ended up copying my profile, deleting it and copying it back.
At about that time I noticed that my aero theme was gone.
I tried all the tricks I found by searching the beta boards, but the
Aero theme is no where to be found along with the aero color scheme.
I have a 3.8 rating and it was there before. Any ideas how to get it
back?

thanks!

[Disp350]

Check to see if the Desktop Window Manager Session Manager service is
running. I had a similar problem a few days after I got a new Vista PC. I am
not sure how it happened, but somehow this service was changed from
Automatic to Manual. Once I started it up, The Aero theme returned.

[snowburnt]

It's running but it isn't showing up still. I was able to find the
style file, and it looks fine but won't show up under the color
settings still.

[Dave]

try restarting the service.

Task Manager - Services - click on Services box in lower right.
in the window that opens, select the service and click on Restart on the
left.

[snowburnt]

tried it, still no go. Also tried the registry hacks and the command
line restarts to no effect. One other thing: I think I was Remote
Desktop-ed into my computer before it got restarted last...not sure if
that had anything to do with it...

[Lang Murphy]

Well... not for nothing, but... sounds like you had enough power issues to
give -any- OS fits...

Lang

[snowburnt]

yeah, power and harddrive issues...I'm not blaming vista, I still
think it's a great OS...I'd just like it that much more if it let me
use Aero again.

[jcarrmartin]

Just do the following:

1. Start
   Control Panel
   Classic View
   Administrative Tools
   Services
   Themes
   Enable
   Start the Service

If this does not restore your Aero Theme, then scroll further down in the Services List and look for Desktop Window Manager Session Manager and turn that on as well.

This worked for me without a hitch. Best of luck to you, matey.