Aero/Desktop Window Manager

[gumbygaz]

What settings do people generally use for Aero/Desktop Composition Settings. Do you leave them as default or force particular settings in Group policy.

Only asking because I've got a number of machines I've recently reimaged with a new x64 image and students are reporting when they've logged in that when a program is minimised it disappears off the taskbar completely.

 

They can Alt-Tab to switch between programs. It's not every student, only does it every so often and sometimes during the same login session it will correct itself and start displaying the programs on taskbar. So proving a right pain to fault find.

 

Only things in the event logs that related are:

ID 9016: Desktop Window Manager - The Desktop Window Manager did not start because an analysis of the hardware and configuration indicated that it would perform poorly

ID 9009: The Desktop Window Manager has exited with code (0x40010004)

 

The machines are core i3 & 4gb RAM so thought that run Aero etc but perhaps I could turn some features off to prevent this issue? Any recommendations or anybody had similar problems?

 

Cheers

 

Gaz