[W7] Aero stopped working on a 8800GT for no reason.

[lkjhgf]

I tried to search the web for a fix but even Microsoft just provides a stand alone fix (which is the same as the integrated one...) that doesn't work, it says I should buy an 'at least dx9 video card and blahblahblah' while it worked for years with this one (obviously).
The card doesn't flicker or anything and is even able to play all kind of 3d stuff as it always did, so I don't really think it's a damaged videocard...
I already tried to stop and run the desktop manager and themes services as disable all unnecessary stuff at boot, also completely uninstall drivers several times.
Nothing is working...

 

[Bubbaleone]

Click Start; then type dxdiag in the search box. Click the icon and run dxdiag to see if it detects any driver or DirectX problems.

 

[zerogear]

Try rerunning WEI again -- Aero sometimes gets disabled when WEI messes up and lowers your score.

 

[lkjhgf]

Click Start; then type dxdiag in the search box. Click the icon and run dxdiag to see if it detects any driver or DirectX problems.

Try rerunning WEI again -- Aero sometimes gets disabled when WEI messes up and lowers your score.

Already did them both before going through the asspain of the uninstall-reboot-install Nvidia drivers hell, no success :-/

 

[Bubbaleone]

The standard Device Manager keeps a record in the regstry of everything you've ever installed; every piece of hardware and all their drivers, whether that device and it's drivers have been "uninstalled" or not. When, for example, the device status is "Currently, this hardware device is not connected to the computer. (Code 45)", the registry still contains all of the hardware and driver information for that device. Installing and uninstalling certain devices and their drivers (Nvidia certainly comes to mind) can become very problematic for this very reason.

To enable the developer version of Device Manager which allows you to see, and uninstall all of these "super hidden" devices; copy and paste the following batch file lines in Notepad, then save it to your desktop as setdev.bat (not .txt):

set DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES=1
start devmgmt.msc

When you double-click setdev.bat and then select "Show hidden devices" in the View menu; all non-present device icons will appear "ghosted", as shown in the below example:

Uninstall all of the ghosted devices in each category by expanding that device category, then selecting uninstall from the right-click context menu. Ignore the warnings to reboot your PC until you've finished uninstalling every ghosted device, then reboot. When you get back to your desktop all the device and driver garbage in the registry will be gone, and you'll have a lot better shot at successfully installing your Nvidia graphics driver.


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