Windows Vista Home Basic

atticgirl2003

I seem to have a problem with my laptop today.

Screen looks a bit large and colours are not right.

Friend used it last week trying to view photos on TV.
Has not been right since.

Any idea what he may have changed that would cause these problems.
A message came up today saying something about windows Aero.
I don't have windows Aero or whatever it was.

Think I may also have some google problem.

Thank You for any help.

Browntoa

use system restore

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial143.html#restore

to go back to a date before they played with it

no files or data are lost

atticgirl2003

Thanks Browntoa.
Just going to give this a try.

Hope I don't make a mess of it.

Will report back.

aliEnRIK

You do have aero. Its just a part of vista that very few people use, but you DO have it.

atticgirl2003

aliEnRIK wrote: »

You do have aero. Its just a part of vista that very few people use, but you DO have it.

Maybe my friend was trying to use it and this is what has caused my problems.
Any way I can check to fix my colour problem.

scheming_gypsy

right click your desktop > personalize (sic) > display settings and slide the bar to the right to increase the resolution.

To get rid of Aero
right click your desktop > personalize (sic) > windows color (sic) and appearance > change it to anything but Aero.


I wish when you choose UK English as a language it'd give us proper spelling.

kkpolobear

i didn't think basic had aero

System

It doesn't have Aero, You have Windows Vista Standard, And Windows Vista Basic, no aero, you have the shadow around the boxes etc, but no transparant look, no flip 3D, No preview boxes on toolbar

aliEnRIK

kkpolobear wrote: »

i didn't think basic had aero

My bad if im wrong. I was under the impression all vistas had it (cr*p ayways)

aliEnRIK

There IS a way of getting it though
http://www.petri.co.il/activate_vista_aero_on_vista_basic_edition.htm
I wonder if they tried to unlock it?

System

aliEnRIK wrote: »

There IS a way of getting it though
http://www.petri.co.il/activate_vista_aero_on_vista_basic_edition.htm
I wonder if they tried to unlock it?

None of them work, I've tried them all. There is no way of getting aero in Vista HB