Re: Vista [beta] question

Hi Barry,

I've yet to see anyone with that chipset run Aero. Aero (transparency)
requires WDDM drivers and support of DX9. More information:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/evaluate/hardware/vistarpc.mspx

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Barry Watzman" <WatzmanNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OxeplfgqGHA.3484@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Ok, I'm in the wrong place. So the first question is, where is the right
place?

But since I'm here .....

Installed the latest Vista Beta on a Toshiba A105-S2712 laptop. The Vista
advisor, running under XP, says it can run Aero. This laptop has an Intel
915 chipset with Intel Graphics Accelerator 900 chipset video (uses shared
memory). This video system can allocate 128MB of video memory and
supports Pixel Shader 2. The computer has a gigabyte of total memory.
The CPU is a Pentium M 1.73GHz (not a Celeron).

My questions all revolve around running Aero the Aero interface on this
system.

First, how can I tell if Aero is running? If Aero is like an Orgasm ("if
you don't know if you are running it, you are not"), then I'm not running
Aero. There is nothing spectacularly different that reaches out and
shakes me, no transparent see-through Windows or anything like that.

Second, if I'm not running it, is there anything in Vista itself that will
come right out and tell me if I'm running Aero, if not why not, and is
there anything I can do turn Aero on if it's currently off?

[Note, I'm using pretty much "Classic everything" .... start menu,
desktop, folders]

Thanks




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