Ran all that and still not enabled.

On another note my Dreamscene started crashing last couple times saying Explorer crashed when it didn't so I surrender, I prefer to have Dreamscene running when I hit the desktop so guess I'll have to wait on the assesment for now.

i think there are some hidden DWM parameters, which vista enables after running assessment. what do u think?

and other option is to enable AERO and dreamscene without error is to just run the Winsat.exe with dwm and/or d3d parameters only.

atleast this will save time as it will skip all other assessment tests

i.e.

winsat.exe /dwm and/or

winsat.exe /d3d

don't think winsat was the problem, was showing I had a score.

I copied those files and merged the reg at setupcomplete.cmd last time. Before I done it at Firstlogoncommands.

cause both those are after Winsat is supposed to run.

The HKCU has to be done at Firstlogoncommands

Maybe a bunch of other stuff needs to be done for Aero in reg, I only used most obvious