Sometimes Vista appears to lose Aero Glass. Aero Glass is the fancy effect that gives windows a semi-transparent border and adds a certain gloss to the desktop. Purely aesthetic but very pleasing. But very occasionally my screen flickers and then Aero Glass gets disabled. I’m not sure why – my best guess is the memory somehow gets maxed out so Vista downgrades the display. Trouble is it doesn’t come back again automatically. I’ve always had to reboot the machine, which is annoying. But I’ve just discovered this little trick to get it back: Stop and restart the “Desktop Window Manager Session Manager” service using these commands in an elevated DOS prompt:
net stop uxsms
net start uxsms
And back comes the lovely shine! 🙂
