Fix Windows Vista Errors

Transient Multimon Manager (TMM) is a feature on Windows Vista that is targeted at improving the user experience of connecting and disconnecting external displays. TMM automatically finds external displays at boot, it can also remember settings of the same external display if you connect it later.

TMM is great if you often want to connect your PC to any external display etc, but if you never use one you can speed up your boot by a few seconds by disabling your TMM. To disable your TMM just;

• Open control panel
• Open system and maintenance
• Open Administrative tools
• Click task scheduler
• Expand task scheduler library (left column)
• Expand Microsoft and windows
• Click on MobilePC
• In the middle column click on TMM
• Right click and click disable
• Done

Or alternatively you can disable your TMM in your Regeditor;

• Open regeditor
• Go to this location
  • Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\TMM
• Click UseIViewHelper
• Set the value data to 0
• Click OK

Because this is such a hot topic, we have devoted alot of our resources to showing you how to speed up Windows Vista. So far with the tweaks on our blog and website, you can get considerable improvements in Vista performance, in some cases up to 300% improvement.

So what we have done is put together all the best Vista speed tweaks into one article. As we get more speed tweaks, we will continue to add them in.

If you have any doubts about your Vista performance, then get started with these tweaks and you will find some definite improvements.  You will also find this extremely useful if you have hardware constraints and can not physically upgrade your system RAM, etc.

Speed Up Windows Vista Guide

Unless you have been living under a rock, you have probably all heard that Windows Vista Service Pack 2 is on the way relatively soon.

Well, SP2 should be undergoing beta testing as early as next week. We can also expect a public release date to follow soon after this. So stay tuned, because it does sound like SP2 will have some pretty good updates.

Vista SP2 will include a bunch of new fixes and updates, some of which include:

• The ability to burn blu-ray discs without any 3rd party software. This will be a very cool feature.
• Improved bluetooth
• Windows Search 4.0. This will hopefully be a faster and better search.
• Improved security
• Improved WiFi

So far, the feature set of SP2 is looking good. We will keep you updated!

I have talked in previous posts about disabling the Windows Vista Aero desktop to increase the overall speed of your PC, so today I thought I’d give 2 quick tweaks you can perform to speed up the Aero desktop if you wish to keep it.

Transparent Glass Effect

The Transparent Glass Effect can be a really cool looking effect for your desktop but it can also slow down your PC, to disable it just;

• Right click somewhere on your desktop
• Click personalize
• Select windows color and appearance
• Uncheck enable transparency (note - your PC may not have this option)
• Done

Windows Minimize/Maximize Animation

You can speed up every action you do by disabling the Windows Minimize/Maximize Animation, to do this just;

• Open run
• Type in systempropertiesperformance
• Go to the visual effects tab
• Uncheck Animate windows when minimizing and maximizing
• Done

Apple has released a commercial poking fun at the amount of money Microsoft spends on advertising rather than fixing Vista (the ad wasn’t free Apple!).

See what you think about it here;

Most users are only starting to learn about Windows Vista Serivce Pack 1, but now Microsoft is already getting ready for Vista Service Pack 2.

Well we don’t have a great deal of information about Vista SP2 yet, but the rumours are that some lucky (unlucky?) customers are already testing a beta version.

There is also a planned service pack 2 for WIndows Server 2008. Nonetheless, we will keep you informed of any updates relating to the service pack 2. Here is the official Microsof Support page: Vista Service Pack 2

Here are two new tweaks I have discovered that should boost the performance of your Vista PC, remember if you do use these features don’t disable them!

Windows Hibernation

Hibernate is a feature seen in many operating systems where the contents of RAM is written to non-volatile storage, such as the hard disk (as either a file or on a separate partition) before powering off the system. Windows hibernation background services can use a large amount of system resources thus can slow down the performance of your PC so if you don’t use this service you can disable it;

• Select Control Panel
• Click hardware and sound
• Click Power Options
• Click Change when the computer sleeps
• Click Change Advanced Power Settings
• Expand the Sleep selection
• Expand the Hibernate After selection
• Crank the selector down to zero
• Click Apply

Remote Differential Compression

Remote Differential Compression (RDC) allows data to be synchronized with a remote source using compression techniques to minimize the amount of data sent across the network. By constantly checking for file changes RDC can potentially slow down your system performance, to turn RDC off just do this;

• Select Control Panel
• Switch to Classic View
• Select Program and Features
• Choose Turn Windows features on and off
• Scroll down and uncheck Remote Differential Compression

Automatic startup programs in Windows Vista can be annoying and they can hog alot of resources. There is no point in starting up a bunch of programs if you are not going to use them anyway.

So this little Vista tweak will help increase your startup time and will optimize your sytem. You will also have less processes running after startup, so you should get some better overall performance.

Disable Unwanted Startup Programs in Vista

• Click start
• Type “msconfig” into the search box
• Click on the “startup” tab
• Uncheck the services you don’t want to startup. Just be careful here, don’t uncheck vital services or things you are not sure of.
• click “OK”
• You can always add the services back in by following the same process.

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Free Download - Fix Vista Startup Problems

It has been officially announced today that the next Windows operating system will be called Windows 7. Mike Nash (VP of Windows Product Management) said on his blog;

“The decision to use the name Windows 7 is about simplicity. Over the years, we have taken different approaches to naming Windows.  We’ve used version numbers like Windows 3.11, or dates like Windows 98, or “aspirational” monikers like Windows XP or Windows Vista.

And since we do not ship new versions of Windows every year, using a date did not make sense.  Likewise, coming up with an all-new “aspirational” name does not do justice to what we are trying to achieve, which is to stay firmly rooted in our aspirations for Windows Vista, while evolving and refining the substantial investments in platform technology in Windows Vista into the next generation of Windows.”

As we have blogged about previously Windows 7 will still be released some time in early 2010.

If you are getting bored with the plain ol’ boot screen you get on Windows Vista then you can change it through a simple settings change. You will change it from the basic boot screen to the Aurora boot screen.

This is what you will see normally on boot up;

Now this is how you can change you Vista boot screen;

• First open up msconfig (start and type msconfig in start search)
• Click on the boot tab
• Check No GUI Boot
• Apply and OK

• You will now have to restart your computer
• On restart you will see the new Aurora boot screen