"Dustin Harper" <dharper@vistarip.com> wrote in message
news:01300C2A-E6B8-4CC0-AC84-68F002CFC49A@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> Aero is only available in versions other than Home Basic. The registry
> hack is something that allows a PC that doesn't meet the hardware specs to
> use aero, but the software does support it.
>
> About the only way to get it to work is to upgrade to a different version
> of Vista.
>
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>
> Dustin Harper
> [email]dharper@vistarip.com[/email]
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>
>
> "Jamjame" <Jamjame@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:5025E1AA-87AE-460E-8DC2-226BCD7BC71B@microsoft.com...[color=green]
>> please help me i really want aero to work in vista basic and microsoft
>> know
>> the proper way of doing this so i want to hear from microsoft but if
>> anyone
>> else knows it please tell me and i have ati readon as my video card 1gb
>> ram
>> and a toshiba laptop i tried changing regestry values but that dont work
>> so i
>> just change it back to normal so don't suggest doing it that way cause it
>> dont work for me.
>>
>> again microsoft is who i like to hear from and if anyone else knows the
>> proper way reply aswell. thanks[/color]
>[/color]


I looked into the registry hack that has been published, and apparently it
doesn't work. I believe the hack was first worked by somebody when the lost
Aero capability in Ultimate edition, and it was assumed, wrongly, that the
hack would work in ALL editions..

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