I lost WB features after Vista "upgrade"

No more trans/blur

from Stardock Forums
My Gateway M275 running WinXP (Intel 82852/82855 Video) used to handle transparency effects very nicely. Upon upgrading to Vista, I expected to not be able to use the Aero flip and such, but I was surprised to find that WB can longer render transparency or blur effects.

I am guessing this is a limitation of the Vista driver - is there any known way to get these back? I dont care about the Aero features much, but I would like to be able to run my WB skins that use transparency.
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
WB will not support transparencies in Vista if the card and drivers don't support Aero.

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Great to pay real $$$ for an "upgrade" like that, isn't it?

Aero should have been incorporated into every version of Vista, IMO. I can't see any reason to downgrade to Vista Basic or Home, especially given the driver/hardware compatibility issues that exist with all versions of Vista.
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Not really that costly to get a videocard that supports Aero. Under 100$ will get you that kind of card and to be honest something like that should be expected if you have a Vista PC as the hardware required has been around for awhile (videocard wise).

You can't force the effects. Thru the beta you could, but the hack that worked was disabled in the RC builds.
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
Yeah, if this was a desktop, I would just upgrade the card (Wintel's goal anyway). But, this is a Tablet PC. I expected to not have Aero - I am fine with that, but I mistakenly thought I would have the same features with the same hardware on the newer OS that I had on the older one.

I may just put the Tablet back to XP and upgrade my XP Media Center at home to Vista instead - although I like what MS did with the Tablet features in Vista. Hmmmmm... decisions...