Mirror drivers don’t support Aero effects

I noticed that my Windows 7 Aero effect was not enabled yesterday after an IT tech had DameWared to my PC to help with an issue I was having. When I went into the Control Panel and “Troubleshoot Aero Effects” option, I received the following error message: “Mirror drivers don’t support Aero effects” and the Troubleshooting dialog was unable to resolve the issue.

Aero Error

To resolve this, open your Device Manager, expand Display Adapters and Disable the “Dameware Development Mirror Driver 64-bit” driver.

Device Manager > Display Adapters

Disable Dameware Adapter

Click “Yes” to disable the device.

Click “Yes” to disable the device

Click “Yes” to restart your computer.

Click “Yes” to restart your computer

 

 

To stop DameWare from installing/using the MRC Mirror Driver, open DameWare Mini Remote Control, click the View menu, and choose Default Host Properties…

DameWare MRC Default Host Properties

Click on the Mirror Driver tab and UNCHECK the Use MRC’s Mirror Driver if available option.

Uncheck the “Use MRC’s Mirror Driver if available” option

iTunes Sync Error (-50)

About 3 months ago I began receiving the following error in iTunes when trying to sync a Smart Album in Aperture 3 to my iPad and iPhone 4.

“The iPad “Tom Gee’s iPad” cannot be synced. An unknown error occurred (-50).”

iTunes Error (-50)

Narrowing down the picture(s) that were causing the issue was not a fast process because the Smart Album in question had 1,500+ images in it.  I began my troubleshooting process by adding a Date filter to the Smart Album and then syncing the updated album to my iPad via iTunes.  After about an hour, I identified the date that contained the photos which were causing the issue.

I then switched my Aperture Browser view to List View (see 1 below) and then scrolled through the data to see if anything looked odd to me.  Immediately, I saw that there a bunch of photos that had a Project Path of “Facebook” (see 2 below).  I right-clicked some of the photos and selected Show in Project, but there was no project found; simply an empty browser window.

Aperture 3 - List View

Instead of deleting the photos from my Aperture library, I updated my Smart Album properties to exclude any items that contained the text “Facebook.”

Updated Smart Album Properties

After doing this, I tried syncing the Smart Album to my iPad via iTunes and all the photos/videos copied over without error!

I hope this helps others who may be having the same problem that I was! =D