I feel your pain, Julie. It really sucks. I have EXACTLY the same problem!

I hooked my USB to Serial adapter onto my new PC (the darn thing doesn't
even have a simple 25 pin RS-232 port on it!) and then attached a serial to
20-milliamp-loop adapter so I could hook up my DEC VT50 terminal. And the
dang thing wouldn't even display AERO! Can you believe that?

It's ok, though. I've put in a support ticket to Microsoft. I'm sure the
appropriate drivers will be coming out soon.

Dale

"Julie" <Julie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Since Intel is being ignorant and refusing to create WDDM drivers for the
> millions of us who have the standard Intel 915 shared 128mb video card,
> does
> anyone know a good alternative to getting the aero transparency effects on
> the border? I'll even take a third party app. Because Lord knows I
> didn't
> pay for Home Premium to get stuck with Home Basic. This is really crap,
> you
> would think they'd make the driver and we would have the choice of whether
> we
> want to run Aero or not. If we're not happy with the performance we'll
> just
> disable it. But this way, noone gets to run Aero. I've got a score of
> 4.0
> on everything else except for my card because its not WDDM/ LDDM. Anyone
> also know a way to override the settings and allow Aero to run? I've
> tried
> all the regedit cracks for the betas but they don't work. THERE MUST BE A
> WAY. I swear man, makes me wish I had a mac with all this upgrading bs.
> No
> computer can even last 6 months in the world of microsoft.