* Did you activate Vista?
* What graphics card do you have?
* If you open, say, My Computer, is the border translucent like lightly colored glass?
* Have you tried changing the theme using Control Panel->Appearance and Personalization? Try going to Classic and then back to Aero.
Let us know.
John
I Had a normal vista light black taskbar in which the start menu was of that vista type.But Suddenly the taskbar has changed to classic(the ones that were there in windows 9
.I right clicked on takbar and clicked on properties and everything is normal.The classic startmenu is not clicked.The normal Start menu is clicked.Please HELP ME TO RESTORE MY VISTA TASKBAR.Mine is an original copy of windows vista ultimate.

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