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Posted 19 April 2007 - 01:53 PM

I have an ati radeon 9250 which I know is an unsupported card for Vista. I have found many ways to forcefully enable aero on the net but none are working. My Vista isn't activated so I'm just asking can you get aereo if you Vista isn't activated?

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Posted 19 April 2007 - 01:56 PM

yes you can

but if the card isn't supported it most probably wont work..

just buy a cheap agp replacement from the ocuk forums

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Posted 19 April 2007 - 03:27 PM

all the cracks out on the net used a reg key that was removed when vista went live, if your card does not support Aero it cannot be turned on, even if you could get it working the preformance would be terrible and most likely it would crash your machine :) sorry video card upgrade is the only was to go

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Posted 20 April 2007 - 12:05 PM

Refresh Ur Aero Experience Index and Select Windows Aero in theme

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Posted 21 April 2007 - 02:57 AM

View Postneo, on Apr 20 2007, 07:05 PM, said:

Refresh Ur Aero Experience Index and Select Windows Aero in theme


'Aero' expirience index? how do i do that?

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Posted 21 April 2007 - 01:46 PM

Go to Control Panel -> System and Maintenance -> System (Click 2nd Option "check your computer's Windows Experience Index base score")

Then Click Refresh or Rate this Computer

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