I was having a read through a bunch of old post on this blog today and realised I havn’t done some post on some of the most basic Vista features, including turing on/off the Aero desktop. If you want to either turn on or turn off you Aero desktop then follow these points, remember you need decent video cards etc to run the Aero desktop.

Turn Off Aero

  • Right click your desktop
  • Click personalize
  • Click windows color and appearance
  • If the appearance setting box shows up you are probably not running Aero
  • If you see the windows color and appearance box then click the open classic appearance link
  • In the color scheme drop down click windows vista basic
  • Click apply
  • Now click OK and you are done

Turn On Aero

  • Right click on your desktop and click personalize
  • Open windows color and appearance
  • Under color scheme select Windows Aero
  • Click apply an OK
  • Done

You can tweak around with the Aero desktop or speed it up by reading some of my older posts;