I was just reading the method to make Vista basic can activate it’s aero from Softpedia. The conclusion is:
- You have to fulfill the minimum hardware requirements to enable this feature on your Vista basic. The minimum requirements are:
- VGA card with support for DirectX 9 graphics WDDM Driver, 128 MB of graphics memory (The card should have minimum feature of Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware and 32 bits per pixel).
- Open Regedit window to edit the Windows Registry by executing
Regedit. - After the registry window opened, go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Software > Microsoft > Windows > DWM registry key.
- Set Composition registry key to 1 and Composition Policy registry key to 2.
- Restart the Desktop Windows Manager Session Manager service. You can do this by executing
net stop uxsms and net start uxsmscommand - Restart your Vista home basic, then you should be enjoying your Vista Aero experience.
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