Visual Elements Problem in Win Professional
Since, I had been using Windows 7 Professional, thumbnails along with aero peek as well as transparency features had made me work efficiently than I had ever worked. I had heard about the incompatible applications in windows 7 but never realised that once such incompatible applications are run, your other fascinating windows features might be disabled. So did that horrible thing happened in my PC too. Whenever I run Macromedia Flash 8, the windows automatically notifies me about the disabled features. It bubbles up "Windows theme has been changed to Windows basic". Then the thumbail,aeropeek and transparency are all gone within a click. I used to restart my system to retore them back but was tedious of restarting again and again. Thank heaven that windows 7 has automatic troubleshooter. Before approching troubleshooter, I went through the Windows Help And Support. And I got to know the reasons behind automatic turn off of the visual elements.
The last point in Help and Support "Your computer doesn't have enough memory to run all of the programs that you have open and also run an Aero theme. If Windows automatically changed your theme to the Basic theme, and you want to change it back to an Aero theme, close some windows to free up memory, and then follow the steps below." was quite helpful for me.
I directly opened the temp folder from ComputerName/AppData/Local/Temp Or you can type %temp% in run window to open this Temp folder too. Now delete all possible files and folders from that Temp.
At once, the aero peek features were turned on in my case.
If the features are disabled due to any other reasons as mentioned in Help and Support then I recommend you to follow the steps mentioned in Help and Suppport. As far as I know, these features are automatically turned off if some applications are incompatible to Professional but those features are automatically turned on when you close all such incompatible applications. Besides that if you are using laptop then please check your battery power also since low battery doesnot support these aero features as well as transparency. Last but not the least if your hardware doesnot meet the recommended configuration, then it is obvious that none of the visual elements will run. Besides hardwares and low battery, you can troubleshoot visual elements as well by running aero troubleshooter.
