Any way to keep FSX from turing of Aero in Win 7?

You can 'fix' it by using net stop uxsms and net start uxsms once fsx has finished loading, this will restart aero (well, the user interface service). There is also an added benefit of this increasing fps slightly for most people.

 

If you're using fsuipc registered version you can automate this with a batch file that is run by fsuipc once FSX is ready.

 

eg...

 

restartDWM.bat in d:\fsx\\Modules:

 

@echo off
net stop uxsms
net start uxsms

 

Added to fsuipc4.ini:

 

[Programs]
Run1=HIDE,"D:\FSX\Modules\RestartDWM.bat"

Is there a way to change the default Windows Basic colors that FSX defaults to when starting up? Like having the window colors gray instead of blue?

You could switch Windows to run in performance mode rather than eye candy mode... I do and have no problems with it...

 

My FSX used to do that, annoyed the heck out of me that it kept switching windows to a bisic scheme, so I switched windows to performance mode, turning off the Aero desktop theme, and that switching went away, all is good again :-)

 

It does make your bars and titles etc all go grey though, is that what your referring to?

You can 'fix' it by using net stop uxsms and net start uxsms once fsx has finished loading, this will restart aero (well, the user interface service). There is also an added benefit of this increasing fps slightly for most people.

 

If you're using fsuipc registered version you can automate this with a batch file that is run by fsuipc once FSX is ready.

 

eg...

 

restartDWM.bat in d:\fsx\\Modules:

 

@echo off
net stop uxsms
net start uxsms

 

Added to fsuipc4.ini:

 

[Programs]
Run1=HIDE,"D:\FSX\Modules\RestartDWM.bat"

 

While this is true and does work be aware if you are running EZdok it'll stop working and return an error message.

 

I have tried the .bat method and the FSUIPC method, both break EZdok. The only way i have found that doesn't kill EZdok is to restart dwm.exe from Task manager almost straight away. Please note that this restarts the window manager which resets Aero.