Why does maximizing Visual Studio 2010 trigger the Windows 7 Basic color scheme

In visual studio 2010 professional, when I maximize the window on a monitor that is 2048 x 1152, Windows 7 changes to the basic color theme (disables aero). Most of the time now I manually resize the window to be the full screen, just not actually 开发者_StackOverflow社区maximized which gets around the problem, but is quite annoying.

Maximizing to one of my smaller 1680 x 1050 monitors on the same machine does not cause this problem.

Done quite a few searches with no results... Any ideas?

To fix disabling of Aero when VS2010 go full screen you need disable "Use hardware graphics acceleration if available" in Tools -> Options -> Environment -> General

First off, the blanket suggestion is to try upgrading your video drivers.

See this issue submitted to Microsoft Connect: Resharper and XAML: http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/567407/visual-studio-2010-switches-to-basic-color-scheme

And this post on MSDN: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/vswpfdesigner/thread/974a0645-53e2-47bf-9463-69b1119bffd3

One thing to try is to run the Aero Troubleshooter. You should be able to get to it by clicking on the balloon and reading the help (there is a link to it there, search for "aero troubleshooter" if you don't find it right away) or by searching for aero in the control panel.

On my laptop the troubleshooter reported that it had changed "something" (god knows what) and then the problem disappeared... magic!

/AZ