I have been just a reader on this forum for a while, but I thought that now would be a good time to post. My son (our first! 
) was born last night, and to fill the time I installed Windows Vista (over 1 hour just to install). After pouring over this forum and others, I have finally got the "Windows Vista Aero Experience" working on my e1405.
The biggest issue was the GMA950
but I finally found the resolution. For all of you that are interested, you have to install the Intel Lakeport WDDM driver. So how do you do this? Well, the driver is included with Vista Beta 2 (build 5384), but it doesn't install automatically. To install it (these instructions only work with GMA950),
That should do it. It worked for me first time.
The only other things that I have found that don't work are the Dell Wireless Utility, and Dell Quickset. I am running Office 2007 that I have been using with XP for the last little while and that runs well. I haven't done a thorough testing yet, but I will. I am going to be installing Adobe Photoshop CS2 and Premiere, as well as some others. I will let you all know how that goes.
) was born last night, and to fill the time I installed Windows Vista (over 1 hour just to install). After pouring over this forum and others, I have finally got the "Windows Vista Aero Experience" working on my e1405.The biggest issue was the GMA950
but I finally found the resolution. For all of you that are interested, you have to install the Intel Lakeport WDDM driver. So how do you do this? Well, the driver is included with Vista Beta 2 (build 5384), but it doesn't install automatically. To install it (these instructions only work with GMA950),
- Open device manager
- Right click your display adapter
- Click "Update Driver Software..."
- "Browse my computer for driver software"
- "Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer"
- Uncheck "Show compatible hardware"
- Make sure "Intel Corporation" is selected under the manufacturer list
- Select "Intel(R) Lakeport Graphics Controller 0 (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM)"
- Finish the installation
- Restart the computer
- If Aero is not running, select it from appearance settings
That should do it. It worked for me first time.
The only other things that I have found that don't work are the Dell Wireless Utility, and Dell Quickset. I am running Office 2007 that I have been using with XP for the last little while and that runs well. I haven't done a thorough testing yet, but I will. I am going to be installing Adobe Photoshop CS2 and Premiere, as well as some others. I will let you all know how that goes.
and they told me over and over that I would need 2gb RAM, but on their website it says that the e1405 only need 1gb for Aero to work. So that lead me all over the internet until I found the solution above.
