Window Color and Appearance

[Yoshimitsui]

Hey!

I recently had to re-install Windows and as i have been adding all my programmes back on and what not i no longer have the option to change my boxes/browsers colours to one of my choice.

I rather hate the dull colour i am stuck with and is rather annoying.

Also the windows media player has changed colours aswell.

Can anybody help?

Thanks, Yoshi

[Recursion]

You need to install your graphics drivers and then select Windows Aero in themes

[Yoshimitsui]

I don't know what driver it is for this, as their is none identified by 'Graphics'.

Also when i clicked to play a game it says that Hardware acceleation is disables or not supported. Do you know what that means.

[Recursion]

Yup, you need to install graphics drivers, you'll need to download a program (which someone else could recommend one, you could try GPU-Z or Everest Home) that will tell you what graphics you have and need to download for.

[hamheyelliot]

I'd say that you're missing the 'Intel Graphics Acceleration' Driver, without it most users with Intel Chipsets or Graphic Cards will find themselves without many Graphic or Resolution options.

Install both of these Intel tools, and they should have you running:
http://www.mediafire.com/?zowym4tfnji
http://www.mediafire.com/?dzhk4anmhmn

[Yoshimitsui]

Do i need to download them to a specific place? Or just download!

Thanks!

[hamheyelliot]

Oh, the links?
Unzip them anywhere, and run the setup.exe for each one.

If one of them doesn't finish or requires a certain file, it's usually because it's not required on the system.
One of them should finish, and the screen will go black for a few seconds to install the driver, then make sure to restart, then it should be sorted.

[Robbie]

I'd say that you're missing the 'Intel Graphics Acceleration' Driver, without it most users with Intel Chipsets or Graphic Cards will find themselves without many Graphic or Resolution options.

Install both of these Intel tools, and they should have you running:
http://www.mediafire.com/?zowym4tfnji
http://www.mediafire.com/?dzhk4anmhmn

He never said his card was Intel...

[Recursion]

I was about to say... How do you know its Intel, for all you know it could be ATi, Nvidia or something else...

What he needs to do is download and run GPU-Z or Everest Home to find out what his graphics card is.

[Yoshimitsui]

I have different problems above that now! I let it do updates and now when i turn it on it keeps saying it can start and omg i am getting so annoyed with it. So i think i will let the engineer fix it tomoz as i am loosing patience.

[The Professor]

What sort of computer is it?

[Yoshimitsui]

It is a Dell XPS M1330! It ased me to insall the some Niveda? programme this morning and has sorted some issues to do with graphics but some things still do not work how they did.

Edit: XPS M1330

[The Professor]

Ah its a dell. Somewhere on the bottom of the laptop there should be a service tag. Find that and enter it into here:
http://support.euro.dell.com/support/downloads/index.aspx?c=uk&l=en&s=gen
Download and install all the drivers on there (which will be specific to your laptop) and whatever problems it has should be fixed :)

[Yoshimitsui]

Ahh, i have the drivers disk but my problem is i need to find out what i am specificly missing. Is their a way to search using that for what i may need?

[The Professor]

Just install them all, it'll whinge at you if you try to install something twice so it can't do any damage. Might take a while but its definately a comprehensive way to fix the problem

[Yoshimitsui]

Okey dokey, thanks :)

[The Professor]

Sorted?

[Yoshimitsui]

No not yet, i will run it tonight when i have time to do it all at once. I will post and let you know ;)