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My windows key combinations (alt-Tab; Winkey-R; etc) are not working in my remote desktop sessions to Win2003 servers. I have selectedthe option to Apply Windows Key Combinations within the client / Option / Local resources, but the setting never seems to take. The option is remembered between sessions or even reboots, and is saved in the default.rdp file, but it just never works. Any ideas?

hope someone can enlighten me here as i'm quite new to Terminal servers Is rootdrv2.cmd still valid in Citrix. If so do you still have to set it on every TS. I thought that TS home drive Group policy setting would now be the preferred opion. Leading on with the next question If users have their home drives mapped in ADUC say to H drive, is there a point in setting up TS home drive as the users would surely have 2 locations to keep their documents in??. My take is if they used pure TS then use the TS home drive If I mixture of 2 then Bothe ADUC home drives and TS Home drives but redirect theTS Home drive to the Users Home Directory Finally AppDa…

I'm having trouble with a system I recently set up and just trying to eliminate things. Did a clean install of XP Pro w/SP2, then I have a downloaded file of SP3 (316M) burned on a CD and I ran that. Lots of quirky problems, Explorer problems, Office problems. I'm just going to start from scratch. But am I right that getting SP3 from Windows Update, or running that file (WindowsXP-KB936929-SP3-x86-ENU.exe) doesn't make any difference? The other possible issue is AHCI. Very briefly, the system came with Vista, AHCI enabled. It would blue screen when I tried to boot XP install CD. I could switch to ATA mode but there was a driver available. A dell system, drive…

Hello, We just install our terminal server. This is a member server not a DC. We can not install application software by using DC administrator. We only can install software by using local member server administrator account. Can we fix this problem? TIA

I use ntbackup for my backups. I have 5 scheduled tasks running 1 for each day so that i have a full weeks of backups. I radomly test the backup files by doing a restore of a few files. My problem is that when i go to restore i see all the backups that were done since 2003 and takes forever to find the backup that im looking for. How can i delete those old links cause the files dont exist? Also if a folder gets deleted the entire backup will fail cause the bks file has that folder in it. Is there a way to prevent this? Here is my friday backup (for example) command that i have in the task scheduler. C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntbackup.exe backup "@C:\BackupS…

Terminal server: windows 2003 std Clients: Windows XP I want to block all local printers from loading into terminal server side, however still allow certain remote users the ability to load their local printers. What is the best way to do this? Can I set the blocking using group policy based on client computer names? Thanks in advance.

This question obviously comes up a lot in this forum, having searched. And while I'm pretty experienced in TS using Win2003, I've always implemented Tricerat's Screwdrivers software. I've had to do this because of the umpteen million different printers out there, and their lack of a built-in native Win2003 driver...while costly, it sure as heck beats attempting to install all the various drivers for the end user's printers (with only scattered success). But I'm interested in whether Win2008 has improved in this area. I have an environment in which all users are now using Windows Vista based PCs. I heard something about how TS in Win2008 can now auto…

My serial port, com1,(DB9) doesn`t seem to work anymore. Computer is a Dell laptop. I use the serial port to communicate with a MicroChip programmer and also hyperterminal. I am an electronics hobbyist and use hyperterminal to setup a few things in an embedded web server in my home. My programmer just gives message "can`t connect to com1" Hyperterminal gives message "Another program is using the selected telphony device. Try again after the other program completes."....How to find what this "other"device is? Here`s what happened to make it stop working. I installed a device(home automation wireless device) called an "X10 FIRECRACKER" It`s just a 1 inch s…

I get a stop error message when I start the laptop. How do I get rid of this screen and run CHKDSK/F as instructed?

EVERY SINGLE TIME my wife and I log off or shutdown our XP Home SP3, we get "Ending Program. Please wait..." and, possibly later, "This program is not responding..." when, to our knowledge, there is NO program running. How can we eliminate this inconvenience? Regards to those of you who pointed me to the solution of earlier problems. -- GP Leo

I have a user that was trying to open their PST file in Outlook, and it was showing that it could't be accessed. I tried to RDP to the server, and it gave me a message that "This copy of Windows must be activated with Microsoft before you can login... Do you want to activate now?". I clicked cancel last week when it happened, and it rebooted the server. All was fine after reboot. I clicked No today, and it logged off the RDP session. The user still can't access the PST file, and I can't RDP to the server. It is several years old, so it's not a new installation issue. Any ideas?

Hi all. I have a Windows2003 terminal server, joined to my domain. This machine works great for many RDP users. I recently added a new domain user configuring the option "Start the following program at logon". The user logs on the machine, but he gains access to the standard desktop, the program I configure doesn't start at logon. I tried the same configuration of some other users who work fine, I tried to start the "notepad.exe" or the "CMD.exe"... nothing. The user always experience a standard logon. The setting on the "enviroment" tab seems to be ignored. The user is "clean". No particular policies or other settings are applied. I don't think t…

Hi folks, I installed a Windows Server 2003 R2 a few weeks ago onto our network/domain, and all went fine. It is not a DC, it is a member server. I'm not trying to install Symantec AV Server on it via a unc path from another server and got the below error, and when I copy the downloaded software onto the desktop and click on the setup.exe file, I get the same error message: "Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item." I'm logged in as the domain admin, and this is the only machine I am having this trouble with. Any ideas? Thanks, Mike

Hi, I'm running WXP SP2 on a two-year old Compaq laptop. A month ago, I formatted three 2-GB thumb drives, one in Fat16, one in Fat32, and one in NTFS format, but I think I may have done this on another computer, perhaps with a Vista OS. I can write to and read from all three of these thumb drives on this laptop. If I right click on any of these three thumb drives in My Computer and choose Format, I get only two choices: Fat 16 and Fat 32 for 2GB thumb drives and only the Fat 32 choice for 4 GB thumb drives. Seems like I should at least be able to do a NTFS reformat of the thumb drive that is currently NTFS. I've seen other threads that talk about n…

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Community, I have a terminal server, each uses the Default User to create their standard profile locally. Once the user is created, I move custom icons to their desktop as they are needed. A TS shared profile will not work in this scenario, since desktop's may be different. I want to make the Desktop read-only, so they cannot use the context-menu to create new documents or save any material to their desktop. Forcing all saving to done to the network share. Termianl Server is a member server, using GP Loopback with replace to keep their settings unique for desktop/TS. I have tried to implement a login script at the GPO level for this group tha…

Here's a tricky one I can't figure out: I attach a second monitor, and extend my desktop onto it. Then I start a program (in this case it's PSPad, but there have been others). The program brings up a window on the first monitor. I drag the window over to the second monitor. I work a little, then close the program. At some point, I detach the second monitor. For example, the first monitor was my laptop and I take it on the road, leaving behind the second monitor at home. Now, having only the one monitor, I open that same program again. It puts its window on the non-existent second monitor (!) That is, it "remembers" where the window was when it last…

I had a Home PC with XP prof on it, I had installed an additional harddisk with XP OS on it to this PC. After the installation, I tried to boot up my original harddisk withe the XP OS, when I start it up, it gets to the login screen correctly and I can log in with no issues. The problem comes in where after I log in, the desktop background image loads up, but none of the desktop icons, start bar or system tray. If I Ctrl + Alt + Del and go to Task Manager, I can run any program without any issues. I tried to login to all others users account, all having the same problems. How to solve this problems. Thanks Derek

Dear Friends; I hav installed win 2000 professional [ c: drive] & win 2000 server [ d: drive ] just for testing purpose on my desktop. Recently i have upgrade win 2000 prof in to win Xp professional. I didn't format c: drive i had just use upgrade options. & didn't touch d: drive at all but now on dual boot menu it is showing Both OS but win 2000 server is not booting up HOw can i rectify this problem. with regd, Gaurav Mathur

Hi, Today I noticed one thinclient was continously using about 500k of bandwidth. The problem was the office assistent. As soon as I disabled this my bandwidth was normal...around 20k. Is this a known problem? Can't read much about it on the net. Ramon

Hi, I have a laptop with Windows XP which is registered as a computer in a group on the intranet at work. When I try to open a local file, XP checks the intranet first. This is OK at work. But at home with a wireless connection to the internet, when I try to open a local file, XP tries to check the now nonexistent intranet and the delay in opening a local file is nearly a minute before it times out and the file is opened. Is there a way to alter this behavior? Thanks, Barry Goluboff

Before I upgraded the pc from win2k to win-xp, I forgot to uninstall the windows 2000 support tools. Now when I do try to get rid of them, it keeps looking for 2000rkst.msi. Is there a way to manually uninstall the tools??

Why does an open pdf doc prevent automatic shutdown of windows? I have to manually close the pdf doc before full shutdown can complete. Any reason for this behaviour?/ Thanks

Hi The following popup is on my screen and will not disappear. What does the message tell me and what is the solution please. Header is "Mobile Devices Properties:wcescomm.exe" Message is "The application or DLL C:\WINDOWS\system\4DHOOK32.dll is not a valid Windows image. Please check this against your installation disckette" Any ideas how to solve this please? Tony

I am running Windows XP Pro SP3 on a Desktop with a 2.1gb dual core processor. I have two DVD burner drives. a Plextor PX712UP and a HP DVD Dual Layer Writer DVD 840d. I am also have installed Powertoy's Tweak UI. Both drives are set to Autoplay in XP's My Computer under the selected drive, and in Tweak UI. However, neither drive will auto start any disk placed in the drive(s). Not Audio Cd, DVD, or Program disk for installation of product. Does anyone have any suggestion what could be blocking the Autoplay feature? Thanks,