For those of you who want full Windows Aero effects during PowerDVD Blu-ray/HD-DVD...

[Tanquen]

On my Windows 7 64-bit install it still disable Aero with the setting unchecked. ???

[andy o]

This ceased to work a long time ago. If you want it to work you'll probably need one of the cards mentioned and one of the versions/builds mentioned. Frankly it's not worth the hassle IMO.

[mkanet]

Does anyone have a clever way to prevent PowerDVD from telling the OS to disable Aero effects? I tried restricting permissions to access the UxSms service in the registry; but it looks like PowerDVD is disabling Aero effects via a different method. I tried a registry monitoring tool, but couldnt find when/where it disables Aero. If I use my remote control, I could have it restart the UxSMS service a second or so after pushing the play button, but I dont have a solution for when I use the keyboard or mouse. Ideally, I would be able to do this by preventing access to the right key via permissions.

[DrinkLyeAndDie]

Originally Posted by mkanet

Does anyone have a clever way to prevent PowerDVD from telling the OS to disable Aero effects? I tried restricting permissions to access the UxSms service in the registry; but it looks like PowerDVD is disabling Aero effects via a different method. I tried a registry monitoring tool, but couldnt find when/where it disables Aero. If I use my remote control, I could have it restart the UxSMS service a second or so after pushing the play button, but I dont have a solution for when I use the keyboard or mouse. Ideally, I would be able to do this by preventing access to the right key via permissions.

I haven't found a good solution and PowerDVD10 doesn't even acknowledge that I have the setting in the Blu-Ray options to not disable Aero. I just made a batch file with the commands luke7 posted to fix it and I run that after PowerDVD10 disables Aero. I tend to multi-task a lot and losing Aero plain annoys me when my system is more than powerful enough to not need it disabled.

net stop uxsms
net start uxsms

It's a pain that I have to do this myself but it works.

[mkanet]

I can't think of a way to have it happen automatically. The problem with a batch file is you still have to double click it after you push play. If the player disabled aero immediate after startup, it would be a no brainer with a small delay before your batch file restarts the service.

If anyone has an automated way for this to happen or figures out where in the registry we can protect using permissions (to prevent the pdvd process/and respective username to touch the part of the registry that's causing aero to get disabled, please post!

Originally Posted by DrinkLyeAndDie

I haven't found a good solution and PowerDVD10 doesn't even acknowledge that I have the setting in the Blu-Ray options to not disable Aero. I just made a batch file with the commands luke7 posted to fix it and I run that after PowerDVD10 disables Aero. I tend to multi-task a lot and losing Aero plain annoys me when my system is more than powerful enough to not need it disabled.

net stop uxsms
net start uxsms

It's a pain that I have to do this myself but it works.

[Ric42]

Is there a tweak that allows vista Aero to still be enabled with TMT3?

thanks

[knight_of_ni]

Originally Posted by Ric42

Is there a tweak that allows vista Aero to still be enabled with TMT3?

thanks

http://www.arcsoft.com/forum/forum_p...80-public-beta