Transient Multi-Monitor Manager causing stuttering

I am running Windows Vista Ultimate Edition on a HP Pavilion zd7260 laptop
(clean install, no upgrade). Lately I have noticed severe stuttering after
restart. The stutters occur once or twice per second and stop the mouse and
all other interface operations halt momentarily. I have found that by
stopping the Transient Multi-Monitor Manager task through the task scheduler,
the stutters stop completely.

I don't see anything in my event logs that seems to indicate a problem state
within the OS.

Has anyone else seen this?
Any suggestions on how to stop this permanently?

I would think you would need a Vista driver. Is the Manager integral to the
video driver or can you disable the Manager and just use the dual-monitor
support built into Vista?

"sspenning" <sspenning@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I am running Windows Vista Ultimate Edition on a HP Pavilion zd7260 laptop
> (clean install, no upgrade). Lately I have noticed severe stuttering
> after
> restart. The stutters occur once or twice per second and stop the mouse
> and
> all other interface operations halt momentarily. I have found that by
> stopping the Transient Multi-Monitor Manager task through the task
> scheduler,
> the stutters stop completely.
>
> I don't see anything in my event logs that seems to indicate a problem
> state
> within the OS.
>
> Has anyone else seen this?
> Any suggestions on how to stop this permanently?