Now is as good a time as any to fix it. Thanks for the link and edit Cody, I had seen people saying calling rundll32 for this wasn't a good idea but didn't understand why until now. Cody Gray: LockWorkStation does not require any parameters, so it wouldn't mind if rundll The fact that it "works" is because of the tireless effort of the backwards compatibility camps. It doesn't do a lot of good to "agree in principle" with something, but then do it anyway. It's a broken, brain-dead solution, and if you understand why it doesn't work i.
It's disappointing to read ignorant comments. The best thing that you could do would be to write a small wrapper program in another language, and just execute that. It wouldn't be as easy to modify as the script, but why would you need to ever do that?
Write once, use many times. Perfectly legal, and it always works. Show 1 more comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer.
Selecting the All users to connect remotely to this computer will enabled Remote Desktop. However, in order to use this method, you must log on to the local computer. Remote Desktop can be enabled remotely by creating a new RDP listening port through the remote computer's registry. You can accomplish this by completing the steps described below:. Alternatively you can also press the Windows Logo and [L].
However, for those of you who use the remote administrator feature of Windows XP, you will soon discover that you can not lock the workstation using either of these methods for the obvious reasons of course. What you can do though is create a shortcut on the remote desktop.
When you double click the shortcut, the remote computer will automatically be locked. Here is what you have to do. Right click on the remote desktop, point to New and click Shortcut. Click Next. Type in a name for the shortcut, such as Lock Workstation and click Finish. Now when you double click the shortcut, the remote computer will then go into a locked state.
There are a few different ways that you can shutdown a computer. You can use the Shut Down option from the Start Menu. Conversely, you can choose the Shut Down option from the Windows Security dialog box. If you frequently use remote administration in Windows XP to manage remote computers, another shutdown alternative is to create shortcut on the remote desktops. You can then use the shortcut to shutdown Windows XP remotely. Once you are connected to the remote Windows XP computer, you need to create a new shortcut using the procedure outlined in the previous section.
When you create the shortcut, type in shutdown -r. This will shutdown and restart Windows. No-one said it was just for remote desktop, the article explains what the problem was and the solution.
It makes no difference that the problem is related to another Windows setting and not directly connected to remote desktop itself. Thank you! I was getting frustrated at how often I had to log back into my RDC. Ticking that check box was the one thing I was missing, and now it works great!
VNC actually transmits video as a stream of compressed images eg. RDP just sends a stream of rendering instructions to the client OS, which then reconstructs the image. In addition you can easily access drives and printers without the need for a driver from the client machine in the RDP session. VNC is slower, higher latency, less secure, has fewer features available, and everything beyond the basics is done with extensions that are typically vendor-specific and so only work if the client and server are from the same vendor file transfer, for example.
I have to agree,with your opinion and position on this and Most things you Comment on. Well Done!!! All of that is working fine. How to Disable the Lock Screen on Windows 10 The first thing you see when you start your Windows 10 system is a lock screen.
Read Next. March 10, at pm. Dissabling the lock screen does not remove the need to enter a password when the machine is locked. Dissabling the lock screen removes the full screen image that is covered with your customisable personal information at times and other stuff like emails received. Jp says:. April 12, at pm. It requires I be online which a. Is the biggest security risk at home, and b. Joel X says:.
November 4, at pm. Nicky says:. October 15, at am. Hi, Im finding this extremely difficult.
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