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hi, i have just installed windows vista yesterday and as soon as i went into my computer,there was no desktop items, no desktop background picture, task bar or start menu.All that comes up is just My Computer then i go to program files to access...

:confused: About 2 weeks ago we shut the computer down, and when we restarted it the next morning the Desktop, Start Menu and Taskbar were missing, there was just a black screen with the documents folder already open. I could only access the...

Vista provides developers with the new DWM based aero interface. A new set of thumbnail API's can be used to access some of this new technology. This virtual desktop program takes advantage of this new API and uses some tricks of its own to provide a powerful virtual desktop manager with a full screen thumbnail based preview. You can have as many desktops as you want and can seamlessly switch between them.

I could swear that when I was running the Vista RC2 beta I got previews of directx games when i moused over the apps tab on the start bar. Now I'm running Ultimate and it just has the exe's icon appear where the thumbnail preview should be.

It works fine for other thumbnail previews such as firefox etc.

Is there a way I can turn it back on for dx apps?

Jon

im wondering if anybody else who is on vista has had or is having problems with the desktop messing up quite frequently things like,taskbar going blotchy,taskbar icons disappearing and minimised bars going to the left and start menu being empty if...