I just ran across these instructions for enabling Aero on a Premium notebook:
http://thevistaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=29510&hl=. Definitely use at your own risk. No guarantees on Basic for sure.
try this
1/ Ensure that you have the following registry value set to :
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM\Composition set to 1 (32-bit DWORD)
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM\CompositionPol icy set to 2 (32-bit DWORD)
2/ Restart DWM by opening a command prompt with administrative privileges :
- Type 'net stop uxsms'
- Then 'net start uxsms'