Comments on: Themes

By: Janis

Janis — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:47:02 +0000

It worked, thank you very much!

Arris: I’m glad to hear it works, thanks for your feedback!

By: Janis

Janis — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 10:57:04 +0000

Had the following problem: successfully enabled Aero effects, but after every reboot many even basic options (like showing window content while dragging etc) reset to default values (minimal appearance). Has anyone experienced the same issue? Arris: Try to set these appearance properties manually via Start -> Run -> SystemPropertiesPerformance -> OK. Hope that works!

By: Coco

Coco — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:12:55 +0000

Hi guys, playing around with Server 2008 R2 at the moment.

To be able to select the Aero theme I had to also do the following step (as noted by Kralle above) after starting the Themes service

Right click “My Computer”
Select Properties
Click on “Advanced system settings”
In the “Advanced” tab, click the “Settings” button for Performance
In the “Visual Effects” tab, choose “Adjust for best appearance”
Click “Apply”

I haven’t tried, but you will likely be able to de-select some of the features (not sure which specific ones were required to let me select the theme)

By: Nima

Nima — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 06:43:26 +0000

Hi and thanksa lot for the step by step tutorials

But I have a computer with win server 2008 r2 and GTX480 and the latest drivers installed but still I could not enable aero and it shows me the basic theme.

I would be glad if anyone can help

a million thanks in advance
Nima Nouri

By: Prashob

Prashob — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:26:46 +0000

Thanks for ur valuable Information. good work. again thanking u..

By: John

John — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 13:47:31 +0000

This is one of the most useful posts I've seen on the Internet in a long time. Very well done. May I suggest you add one more step... How do we get rid of the default group policies that are on Server 2008 and make it like Win 7? Arris: I'm glad you like it! The modification of the Group Policies is described in the other articles which can be accessed via the main page of the manual.

By: Denis

Denis — Tue, 25 May 2010 08:02:25 +0000

My server says error ! refreshing !

don’t know haven’t yet activated the product ! maybe that’s why !

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By: coolhiss

coolhiss — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:45:56 +0000

how to install Desktop Environment Feature on Server 2008 R2 HPC Edition ??

By: GMan

GMan — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:59:55 +0000

After install of “Desktop Experience” the processor went to 80-90% use- task man says svc.host- stop process, again it took off- stop process-(I thought i got infected here but it turned out to be Win Defender update according to Event Viewer)

Very nice Site you have here. Just what I was looking for.
On to the next step…

Arris: I’m glad you like the site! About the cpu usage: you can try to use Sysinternals Process Explorer to find out what’s exhausting the CPU.