Lost "Show window previews" on Taskbar properties

[LeveL]

Ignore the title folks, its misleading, sorry Nuhi, it isn't vLite that has caused

the problem, I just thought it was in the beginning...

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After using vLite, I installed Vista and everything is OK apart from one thing,

I hover the mouse over the minimized windows and do not get the preview

coming up. So I right clicked the taskbar, chose properties, and indeed, the

option is greyed out:

What I don't understand is, why should removing "Windows SAT" affect this?

Also, when I press Winkey+Ctrl+Tab it does not do the fancy scrolling through

the windows! I think this is all related too.

Why do I think its the removal of Windows SAT? Because what else could it be?

For some reason, because my machine is not rated for performance I think

this has affected a few things, yes the Aero Glass is on and OK, yes all the tickboxes

under erformance are ticked to use the most luxurious display possible... but its

something else entirely I think, it must be because a performance check has never

been done?

I think what we need is a simple registry tweak to fool Vista into thinking...

1 - The performance check has been done (SAT removed or no SAT removed, who cares,

this is the registry we are talking about, I am sure removing SAT won't make any difference

if there was some way to make Windows think the check has been performed)

2 - The check was passed!

I am using vLite v1.0b and keeping all the compatibility for Aero, ACDsee and

the other items, here is my last session...

Last_Session.ini

Edited May 26, 2007 by LeveL

[nuhi]

You say that Aero is enabled but it doesn't seem so from that screenshot.

Can you confirm that?

[geo411m]

he's not using areo glass thats why he doen't have all aero features.

[LeveL]

You say that Aero is enabled but it doesn't seem so from that screenshot.

Can you confirm that?

he's not using areo glass thats why he doen't have all aero features.

Peeps, this is in VMware where you cannot have the translucent effect,

I know, but you CAN at least have the theme set on Aero, which it is,

also in a full Vista install in VMware, I am 90% sure there are thumbnail

previews on the taskbar. Although hey, I am not 100% sure about this.

I don't have that much disk space and can't do a full install in VMware.

Just trying to perfect my vLite'd ISO before I install it on my real machine,

but I guess to really test this, I am going to have to just install it on my real

machine anyhow and see what the deal is with that greyed out option.

Although why would the Aero Glass effect be tied into the taskbar thumbnail

option and ability to do the window scrolling? I can't do the window scrolling

either.

Its VMware v5.5 as well so its only got 4Mb of video memory, I am surprised

Vista even runs on that much vid memory AT ALL, never mind showing any kind

of a theme.

I just realised that "Switch between windows" icon is the thing to scroll the windows in 3D,

hehe, thats not working in VMware either, it seems that in VMware it is completely crippled

as far as the theme goes... sorry I seem to be blaming vLite for these things when its got to

be VMware.

Now where is that Acronis rescue CD.......

Edited May 26, 2007 by LeveL

[LeveL]

OK now I am worried. I have installed Vista on my real machine,

installed chipset drivers and graphics drivers, all compatible with

Vista... and still its exactly the same as it is in VMware, no taskbar

thumbnails, no Aero Glass. Its just the same light blue windows

as in VMware.

So I looked for the "force glass" tweak, this:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\DWM]
"EnableMachineCheck"=dword:00000000
"Glass"=dword:00000001

NOTE: The DWM key was not even there before I imported this tweak!

Something is seriously wrong

Anyway I applied this tweak and rebooted, still no glass effect, I have an

ATI Radeon 9550 256Mb graphics card, 1Gb RAM memory and an Athlon

64 3000+ CPU.

When I click themes, it says "Windows Vista" and shows those same light

blue windows that should be glass.

There is nothing else I can tell you and nothing else I can think of.

Edited May 26, 2007 by LeveL

[nuhi]

Did you install latest proper display driver for your VGA/GPU?

Also if you haven't removed Aero, as I see you didn't, you shouldn't have tampered with any tweaks around it, just go in the Desktop Properties and select Aero Glass, you have to select it if WinSAT is removed, it won't do it automatically, that's the only difference.

Otherwise if there is no Glass on the list then it's either the wrong tweak or wrong display driver.

Note: Glass is not in the Themes page, it is in the Windows Color and Appearances in the Desktop properties (Personalize).

[LeveL]

Did you install latest proper display driver for your VGA/GPU?

On my actaul machine with ATI Radeon 9550 256Mb, I installed the Catalyst

driver (says its for Vista) called 7-4_vista32_dd_ccc_enu_44985.exe

I think the problem might be the Chipset drivers (not because of removing

anything, I mean in general) Windows says it installed the Chipset and yet

it didn't because I cannot change the DMA mode and the properties for the

"IDE/ATA ATAPI Controller" is very limited. Its nForce3. I don't even think

there are any Vista Chipset drivers for NF3 yet... but Nuhi don't worry about

this because even on a FULL install of Vista on my real machine, its the same,

no glass, no taskbar thumbnails etc.

Also if you haven't removed Aero, as I see you didn't, you shouldn't have tampered with any tweaks around it, just go in the Desktop Properties and select Aero Glass, you have to select it if WinSAT is removed, it won't do it automatically, that's the only difference.

This is funny because the theme IS set on Aero Glass right from the start, in all these cases:

1 - vLite'd in Vmware

2 - vLite'd on my real machine

3 - Full Vista on my real machine

Its just not transparent, its the light blue you see in the image in the 1st post.

Otherwise if there is no Glass on the list then it's either the wrong tweak or wrong display driver.

Note: Glass is not in the Themes page, it is in the Windows Color and Appearances in the Desktop properties (Personalize).

Yeah, this is where I am looking.

Sorry man, this problem is not because of vLite... I actually think its because I integrated

all these hotfixes: http://www.vistasp1.net/

So much for "Vista SP1" more like "Vista WTF"

The really crappy thing is those hotfixes add about 60Mb o the ISO so I was removing

a lot more stuff than I could be, OK back to my original plan then of just adding ONLY

the hotfixes shown on Windows Update (Theres only about 12, not 90+ like on that

Vista SP1 page)

OK, I will just strip it, using the same Last Session I was originally that kept quite a few

more things (not Windows SAT, I will still remove that) and I will post back...

... theres your warning folks, don't integrate ALL the hotfixes from that page! At least

this is all I can narrow it down to as far as the Aero Glass not working goes...

Edited May 26, 2007 by LeveL

[geo411m]

So much for "Vista SP1" more like "Vista WTF"

The really crappy thing is those hotfixes add about 60Mb o the ISO so I was removing

a lot more stuff than I could be, OK back to my original plan then of just adding ONLY

the hotfixes shown on Windows Update (Theres only about 12, not 90+ like on that

Vista SP1 page)

OK, I will just strip it, using the same Last Session I was originally that kept quite a few

more things (not Windows SAT, I will still remove that) and I will post back...

... theres your warning folks, don't integrate ALL the hotfixes from that page! At least

this is all I can narrow it down to as far as the Aero Glass not working goes...

i did the the same thing slipstreaming all those hotfixes. its not worth it really. you lose 60 megs of space that could other wise be used for features. once u lose a feature its gone and hotfixes get replaced every month anyway, so next month your up to date cd will be out dated.

also i don't know if its been mentioned here but if you don't run the install from windows you can delete all files in the sources folder except both .wim files and that will save you an additional 70+ megs.

Edited May 26, 2007 by geo411m

[LeveL]

You know, I really can't tell if its my system or not...

I have an nForce3 chipset with an ATI 9550, and a single core CPU.

All over the net people with this same setup but a dual core AMD X2 CPU

are getting an Error 43... I have looked and apparently NVIDIA do not

support nForce3 on Vista!

Maybe I should just get a Mobo with a VIA chipset?!

I found something out about "Windows SAT" - on your ISO this component

only takes up 11Mb! Yes, it takes up 72Mb in the installed OS, but only 11Mb

on the ISO.

I know it would take a lot of testing but we should try to make a complete list

of all these sizes... vLite tells you only whats saved in the installed OS, you have

to continually copy a full DVD, strip it, find its over CD size, copy athe full DVD,

strip it, find its over CD size, its a very long process!

The thing is though with those hotfixes, you gotta look at how they do not appear

on Windows Update - if they were really THAT important, then they would appear

there and they don't.