Category: Help Desk

Software Development and IT Support in Tameside

Windows 8.1 Review

I’ve been playing with the Windows 8.1 Preview (i.e. Pre-release software), and I’ve got to say I’m still massively disappointed. Agreed, we now have a start button, but all it does is get you back to the metro screen if you left-click it, and if you right click it, you get various options for configuration…
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Auto-Launching Programs in Terminal Services 2008R2

Had a call from a client where when setting the “Launch this program on connection” setting within their Remote Desktop icon, the program failed to launch, the session closed, and the server logged an “The attempt to shutdown/restart the server by user xxxxxx failed”. The answer is simple, but finding it can be elusive. Simply…
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