Microsoft Transient Multi-Monitor Manager???

I have desktop PC and only one monitor and I can't see why i need to run it
*ever* and yet this task is in my scheduler programmed to run every time
anyone logs on - and it's been running now for 17 hours continuous????

Do i need this task to run?

There seems to be dozens of these 'apparently' unnecessary tasks being
performed - e.g. 'mcupdate' checks for media centre updates (which i never
use) - even if i did a check once per month would be sufficient - but this
is scheduled to run every - single - day

does this explain why i don't have enough processing power left to open an
explorer window in under 20 seconds despite having 4 times the power of my
ol XP machine?

Are there any tasks known to be useless that i can disable? and hopefully
speed up my machine

>There seems to be dozens of these 'apparently' >unnecessary tasks being
>performed - e.g. 'mcupdate'

In case you haven't noticed it you are using vista, the most bloated and
stupidly designed OS ever made.

I have to spend 30-45 mins tweaking vista after a clean install in order
for it to work even slightly well..

its crap total crap, a true pig with lipstick



"JethroUK©" <> wrote in message
news:uV0Rj.127513$2...
>I have desktop PC and only one monitor and I can't see why i need to run it
>*ever* and yet this task is in my scheduler programmed to run every time
>anyone logs on - and it's been running now for 17 hours continuous????
>
> Do i need this task to run?
>
> There seems to be dozens of these 'apparently' unnecessary tasks being
> performed - e.g. 'mcupdate' checks for media centre updates (which i never
> use) - even if i did a check once per month would be sufficient - but this
> is scheduled to run every - single - day
>
> does this explain why i don't have enough processing power left to open an
> explorer window in under 20 seconds despite having 4 times the power of
> my ol XP machine?
>
> Are there any tasks known to be useless that i can disable? and hopefully
> speed up my machine

"JethroUK©" <> wrote in message
news:uV0Rj.127513$2...
>I have desktop PC and only one monitor and I can't see why i need to run it
>*ever* and yet this task is in my scheduler programmed to run every time
>anyone logs on - and it's been running now for 17 hours continuous????
>
> Do i need this task to run?
>
> There seems to be dozens of these 'apparently' unnecessary tasks being
> performed - e.g. 'mcupdate' checks for media centre updates (which i never
> use) - even if i did a check once per month would be sufficient - but this
> is scheduled to run every - single - day
>
> does this explain why i don't have enough processing power left to open an
> explorer window in under 20 seconds despite having 4 times the power of
> my ol XP machine?
>
> Are there any tasks known to be useless that i can disable? and hopefully
> speed up my machine




You can disable the majority of the tasks in there, without any major
issues. The subfolder in which they're located gives a good indication of
which programs they're connected to. If you don't use multiple monitors or
Media Center, then sure, disable them.

--
Jon

vishhiita prime wrote:
>>There seems to be dozens of these 'apparently' >unnecessary tasks being
>>performed - e.g. 'mcupdate'
>
>
> In case you haven't noticed it you are using vista, the most bloated and
> stupidly designed OS ever made.

In your own opinion.
>
> I have to spend 30-45 mins tweaking vista after a clean install in order
> for it to work even slightly well..

You mean you send 30-45 mins ruining Vista, seeing as how you're noted
for your lack of computer skill and are an incompetent fool.
>
> its crap total crap, a true pig with lipstick

It sure has made a fool out of you hasn't it?...LOL!
Frank

This is a typical day of our newsgroup genius FRANK. Enjoy... lol

8:00 Frank wakes up to the vista start sound alarm he has ordered especially
made for him..
8:05 He shuffles towards the mirror and smiles. The cracked Mirror cracks
some more from the sight of his ugly maw.
8:06 He takes a good close look at his reflection and with a singing voice
declares " Ohhhh .. what a handsome guy you are todayyyyyy!!!" The
cockroaches under his bed squirm from the agony of this horrid voice.
8:10 He washes his face and notices a bottle of pills in front of him. Gee
my doctor said something about those pills..Prozac? I cant remember what
that is.. no need, Im FINE!!!! Anyway I know much more than any doctor!
HMMMFFFF!
8:12 I don't have much time for breakfast! Frank grabs a can of luncheon
meat from a drawer... he takes a look at the label:
"SPAM". Now Im an expert at THAT! He things to himself and gobbles the whole
can down in a few gulps.. Wow..that was a heck of a tasty pig!!! I wonder if
it was wearing lipstick when they killed it.. nah.. it wasn't made in
Redmond! Ha!
8:15 TIME TO GO TO WORK!!! He shuffles towards his desk, tugs his long tail
so it wont be in the way, and sits his fat ars down on the chair.. the chair
shivers from agony from the smell and weight of his rear end (the desk in
the same room as his bed by the way) and turns on the computer....the screen
reads REDHAT LINUX 6.0, but after several minutes his trusty 486 boots up to
a vista themed GUI.
"Heck as long as it looks like vista, I don't care what it really is", he
thinks to himself and shrugs'
8:30 Let me check in to my company to see if the boys are there and working
hard. I don't pay them to be lazy anyway!
8:32 Frank calls the number.

Guy on the line: Hello?

Frank: Good morning.

Guy on the line: Who is this?

Frank: Good , you are checking who it is before you answer just like I told
you. You always have to keep an eye out for our competitors

Guy on the line: Ohh.. no ... its YOU again? How many times I have told you
that you should not call here!

Frank: Ok, I know its not nice for your Boss to keep checking on you, but we
have a company to run! How are our 17 Vista computers going? I bet they are
running fast and great..

Guy on the line: Look I don't know who you are and what you want, you keep
calling me in the morning and telling me a bunch of CRAP, and if you don't
stop this ill tell the cops to watch the lines and find your ars! And I
would NEVER install vista you moron!

Frank: Ohh don't be upset like that just because I have you only a 2000
dollar raise instead of a 3000 dollar one that you needed.
Hey I ordered that nice Peugeot car for the company directly from France! I
bet you will like that...

Guy on the line: F@ck off bastard! (the guy slams the phone)

Frank: Good boy, I trained him myself to talk like a champ!

9:00 Ok time to check my email.. err.. I mean my newsgroups... Frank flexes
his knuckles and cracks sound as if his bones are splintering!
9:20 (yeah its this slow because frank is still on dial up).. AHhhh what
have we here? More posts from alias, adam, and that stupid captain crunch???
HOW DARE THEY INSULT VISTA>. let me just reply to them...
9:25 Frank grabs a worn down book from a shelf titled: "1000 best insults
and how to use them". "Ahh this is my favorite book" he says to
himself..."this is where I get all my great inspiration from!" Boy am I a
genius!!!
9:30 am to 11:30 pm... Frank cycles through the events from 8:32 am to 9:25
am again and again and again

11:45pm Geee that was a busy and full day... got to get to bed soon because
tomorrow I have more of this very important work.

12:00 Frank is in bed counting and dreaming of sheep jumping on top of each
other.... "I bet alias would love to be here.. but now I have these sheep to
myself.. all mine.. come to me you white wooly creatures.. "






"Frank" <> wrote in message
news:...
> vishhiita prime wrote:
>>>There seems to be dozens of these 'apparently' >unnecessary tasks being
>>>performed - e.g. 'mcupdate'
>>
>>
>> In case you haven't noticed it you are using vista, the most bloated and
>> stupidly designed OS ever made.
>
> In your own opinion.
>>
>> I have to spend 30-45 mins tweaking vista after a clean install in order
>> for it to work even slightly well..
>
> You mean you send 30-45 mins ruining Vista, seeing as how you're noted for
> your lack of computer skill and are an incompetent fool.
>>
>> its crap total crap, a true pig with lipstick
>
> It sure has made a fool out of you hasn't it?...LOL!
> Frank

Clear Windows, the idiot moron loser wrote:

--------------------------------
Thanks for proving my point capin' crunch. Vista owns you and has made a
complete and utter fool out of you!...LOL!
Frank

Hello, I am Franks apprentice.

My goal is to take over this vista newsgroup when Frank retires.

That's why I have been very busy studying under Master Frank
the art of Trolling.

I have been painstakingly reading through the millions of posts of frank in
this newsgroup so I can learn as much as possible.
Frank indeed is the master of posting day and night, and yet saying nothing.
This is a skill I have learned now!
Also I have learned by heart all the fast insults Frank has used against his
dreaded enemies, that involve sheep, medications, cardboard spaceships, and
variety of colorful bad words.

I also do the same daily vista prayer frank does every day.. even though
like him I never owned vista!
The art of scaring off a newsgroup opponent by magnifying my riches,
abilities, intelligence, number of owned computers, and even good looks, is
something that Frank has taught me well. It doesn't matter if Im a creep,
fat and stupid as a retard, as long as my newsgroup opponent doesn't know, I
will always be able to win!

I also have learned the same great computer skills Frank has, that includes
not being able to import the data from one news client to another, the fear
of clicking on
links in newsgroups messages, and the inability to view flash video.

Frank is a real newsgroup combat warrior and he is my hero! He can paralyze
his opponents by sheer determination to get the last word of each thread,
even if the last word is
a shuffling of the large vocabulary of 100 insulting words he uses...
Because of this determination to get the last word threads can grow to
immense length, but that doesn't scare Frank or me! He also uses the hit and
run tactic, that may seem like cowardness but in reality its cleverness. I
insult insult and insult, when the opponent says something smart that I cant
figure out or its a challenge, I change the subject by adding more insults
to confuse the opponent and catch him off gaurd!

In my study of Franks battle tactics I can painstakingly written down all
his 100 insult words so I can learn them too.

Not to worry Master Frank, even though you are an old coot, there is a new
generation ready to take over when you are gone!



"Frank" <> wrote in message
news:eW6$...
> Clear Windows, the idiot moron loser wrote:
>
> --------------------------------
> Thanks for proving my point capin' crunch. Vista owns you and has made a
> complete and utter fool out of you!...LOL!
> Frank

Hello, can you give us a more detailed list of what we can disable and why..
or do you know of some resource online?

I have tried various configurations of these tasks.. but I would like to
compare with what other people are doing

thanks

"Jon" <> wrote in message
news:...
> "JethroUK©" <> wrote in message
> news:uV0Rj.127513$2...
>>I have desktop PC and only one monitor and I can't see why i need to run
>>it *ever* and yet this task is in my scheduler programmed to run every
>>time anyone logs on - and it's been running now for 17 hours
>>continuous????
>>
>> Do i need this task to run?
>>
>> There seems to be dozens of these 'apparently' unnecessary tasks being
>> performed - e.g. 'mcupdate' checks for media centre updates (which i
>> never use) - even if i did a check once per month would be sufficient -
>> but this is scheduled to run every - single - day
>>
>> does this explain why i don't have enough processing power left to open
>> an explorer window in under 20 seconds despite having 4 times the power
>> of my ol XP machine?
>>
>> Are there any tasks known to be useless that i can disable? and hopefully
>> speed up my machine
>
>
>
>
> You can disable the majority of the tasks in there, without any major
> issues. The subfolder in which they're located gives a good indication of
> which programs they're connected to. If you don't use multiple monitors or
> Media Center, then sure, disable them.
>
> --
> Jon
>
>
>

"Clear Windows" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hello, can you give us a more detailed list of what we can disable and
> why..
> or do you know of some resource online?
>
> I have tried various configurations of these tasks.. but I would like to
> compare with what other people are doing
>
> thanks
>


I don't know of any definitive resource, but see if this MS link helps

Description of the scheduled tasks in Windows Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/939039


AFAIK there are no major issues disabling any of those tasks, and by major
issues I mean Vista not booting - not whether an automatic restore point is
created or not, or whether a calendar reminder works You'll lose a bit of
inbuilt functionality if you disable anything in there, but the question is
how significant that piece of functionality is to you.

In the early days of my using Vista, when I was testing out the new os, I
ran it exclusively within a virtual machine. There speed was a, if not
*the*, primary concern, and one area I experimented with was disabling
nearly all of those tasks - without any major problems.

For example being able to run DirectX applications within a virtual machine
meant that I had little need of Media Center background tasks, BUT when
using it normally installed on a machine I would keep the task the OP
mentioned 'mcupdate' enabled, since it's a useful task that downloads the
'guide' - which I often use and wouldn't want to do without. Tasks like
defragmentation and System Restore I disable in favour of my own
preconfigured tasks- and it's up to you if you want to help MS out with
their next os via the "Customer Experience Improvement Program" or "Windows
Error Reporting" - matter for individual choice, I suppose.

So it would be difficult to give a "one-size-to-fit-all" answer, but
perhaps that helps a bit.


--
Jon

thanks...

"Jon" <> wrote in message
news:...
> "Clear Windows" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Hello, can you give us a more detailed list of what we can disable and
>> why..
>> or do you know of some resource online?
>>
>> I have tried various configurations of these tasks.. but I would like to
>> compare with what other people are doing
>>
>> thanks
>>
>
>
> I don't know of any definitive resource, but see if this MS link helps
>
> Description of the scheduled tasks in Windows Vista
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/939039
>
>
> AFAIK there are no major issues disabling any of those tasks, and by major
> issues I mean Vista not booting - not whether an automatic restore point
> is created or not, or whether a calendar reminder works You'll lose a bit
> of inbuilt functionality if you disable anything in there, but the
> question is how significant that piece of functionality is to you.
>
> In the early days of my using Vista, when I was testing out the new os, I
> ran it exclusively within a virtual machine. There speed was a, if not
> *the*, primary concern, and one area I experimented with was disabling
> nearly all of those tasks - without any major problems.
>
> For example being able to run DirectX applications within a virtual
> machine meant that I had little need of Media Center background tasks, BUT
> when using it normally installed on a machine I would keep the task the OP
> mentioned 'mcupdate' enabled, since it's a useful task that downloads the
> 'guide' - which I often use and wouldn't want to do without. Tasks like
> defragmentation and System Restore I disable in favour of my own
> preconfigured tasks- and it's up to you if you want to help MS out with
> their next os via the "Customer Experience Improvement Program" or
> "Windows Error Reporting" - matter for individual choice, I suppose.
>
> So it would be difficult to give a "one-size-to-fit-all" answer, but
> perhaps that helps a bit.
>
>
> --
> Jon
>
>
>