Fujitsu Siemens V5535 Windows 7 Aero Information

So here's my initial reason for writing a blog, Fujitsu Siemens V5535 (an old laptop with great upgrade potential) and I will go into that in depth at a later date but for now I just want to identify reasons why Windows 7 Aero fails to run on this particular laptop. Don't get me wrong, this laptop **IS** capable of running Aero and I just want to point out reasons why if it fails to do so..

• Wrong SiS graphics driver (ensure you are using the correct Vista driver)
• An annoying Windows Update is installed (KB2670838, remove it!)
• Incorrect registry settings
• Manually force Aero to restart

Vista Graphics Driver

Choose 'Wndows Vista Basic/Premium', 'IGP Graphics Driver', 'SiS671 & SiS672 series', then 'Go' and find the most up to date driver available (2009-12-14).

Registry Settings

Open Registry Editor (RegEdit). Navigate to the following registry key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM

If the DWM registry key is not found, right click on Windows and then select New -> Key to create new branch and name it as DWM.

In the right details panel, create a new DWORD (32-bit value) named UseMachineCheck, and set its value to 0.

In the right details panel, create a new DWORD (32-bit) Value named Blur, and set its value to 0.

In the right details panel, create a new DWORD (32-bit) Value named Animations, and set its value to 0.

Forcing Aero to restart

Restart the Desktop Window Manager Session Manager - create a batch file (save as .BAT) and right click Run as Administrator.

@echo off
echo net stop uxsms
net stop uxsms
echo. 
echo net start uxsms
net start uxsms
echo. 
pause 
exit

This will restart Windows Aero (although it never did me any good using this method but it may assist somebody?)

So, now you've got Window Aero working on your V5535 laptop, happy days!