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

Print Spooler Error in Windows 7 under Boot Camp

BACKGROUND:

A few months ago I installed Windows 7 on my Macbook Pro (13″ Unibody running Snow Leopard).  Yesterday I decided to try and boot into my Win7 Boot Camp partition via VMWare Fusion v2.03.  Doing this installed VMWare tools to Windows 7.

PROBLEM:

Today, when I booted directly into my Windows 7 partition (not via VMWare), I noticed that I couldn’t print anything anymore.

I checked the Event Viewer and found the following error in the System log:

The Print Spooler service terminated unexpectedly.

In the Application section of the Event Viewer, I found the following:

Faulting application name: spoolsv.exe, version: 6.1.7600.16385, time stamp: 0x4a5bd3d1

Faulting module name: TPVMMon.dll, version: 2.0.51.5, time stamp: 0x48359080

Exception code: 0xc0000005

Fault offset: 0x000000000000846e

Faulting process id: 0x1300

Faulting application start time: 0x01caa2aa2c4394d8

Faulting application path: C:WindowsSystem32spoolsv.exe

Faulting module path: C:WindowsSystem32TPVMMon.dll

Report Id: 7188e318-0e9d-11df-9123-895fd79b6e49

Faulting application name: spoolsv.exe, version: 6.1.7600.16385, time stamp: 0x4a5bd3d1Faulting module name: TPVMMon.dll, version: 2.0.51.5, time stamp: 0x48359080Exception code: 0xc0000005Fault offset: 0x000000000000846eFaulting process id: 0x1300Faulting application start time: 0x01caa2aa2c4394d8Faulting application path: C:WindowsSystem32spoolsv.exeFaulting module path: C:WindowsSystem32TPVMMon.dllReport Id: 7188e318-0e9d-11df-9123-895fd79b6e49

The only thing I could attribute the Print Spooler issue to was VMWare Fusion.

I tried uninstalling the VMWare Tools program listed in the Control Panel > Uninstall Program section, but it would not remove.  No errors were displayed, but the program wouldn’t remove from the Programs list.

SOLUTION:

I deleted the following folder (and all related subkeys) from the Registry (via Start > Run > regedit):

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetContro lPrintMonitorsThinPrint Print Port Monitor for VMWare]