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I was just reading the method to make Vista basic can activate it’s aero from Softpedia. The conclusion is:

1. 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).
2. Open Regedit window to edit the Windows Registry by executing Regedit.
3. After the registry window opened, go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Software > Microsoft > Windows > DWM registry key.
4. Set Composition registry key to 1 and Composition Policy registry key to 2.
5. Restart the Desktop Windows Manager Session Manager service. You can do this by executing net stop uxsms and net start uxsms command
6. Restart your Vista home basic, then you should be enjoying your Vista Aero experience.

Source:

1. Softpedia’s Review
2. My Digital Life Review’s