As maybe many of you observed as well, the Remote Desktop components shipped with Vista and XP SP3 (especially XP!) are not as stable that the previous versions. My personal experience includes sudden disconnects (when heavy graphics in the remote sessions are involved) as well as "stuck" sessions. These sessions are stuck when you try to gracefully disconnect a remote session. Somehow - and don't ask me why - the remote desktop component thinks it must try to reconnect, which never happens. The nice reconnect screen has a disabled or useless "Cancel" button. So, the session is "stuck". Only remedy (now): Shutdown Royal TS and restart it. Royal TS get's a new menu item "Force Disconnect" to destroy the ActiveX control itself by force and should only be used in that rare occasion. Read More »
As maybe many of you observed as well, the Remote Desktop components shipped with Vista and XP SP3 (especially XP!) are not as stable that the previous versions. My personal experience includes sudden disconnects (when heavy graphics in the remote sessions are involved) as well as "stuck" sessions. These sessions are stuck when you try to gracefully disconnect a remote session. Somehow - and don't ask me why - the remote desktop component thinks it must try to reconnect, which never happens. The nice reconnect screen has a disabled or useless "Cancel" button. So, the session is "stuck".
Only remedy (now): Shutdown Royal TS and restart it.
Royal TS get's a new menu item "Force Disconnect" to destroy the ActiveX control itself by force and should only be used in that rare occasion.
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I got a lot of feedback lately, that Royal TS needs an import functionality. I completely agree, but I soon realized, that almost everyone has different requirements. So thinking through all possibilities and providing a powerful UI which can handle all different requirements would be very time consuming. So I thought, providing a sample script which shows how this can be done should get you started... Click here to get to the script.
I got a lot of feedback lately, that Royal TS needs an import functionality. I completely agree, but I soon realized, that almost everyone has different requirements. So thinking through all possibilities and providing a powerful UI which can handle all different requirements would be very time consuming.
So I thought, providing a sample script which shows how this can be done should get you started...
Click here to get to the script.
A friend of mine just brought to my attention that Royal TS was mentioned in the November Issue of Windows IT Pro Magazine (on Page 9). Björn Lysell wrote: "... I can recommend a freeware utility called Royal TS that you can use to group your connections in a simple GUI. You can read about and download Royal TS at the following URL: http://www.code4ward.net ..." I am very proud that a tool which was done late 2003 using dotnet Framework 1.1 is still very popular and useful - It's even running smoothly on Windows Vista.
A friend of mine just brought to my attention that Royal TS was mentioned in the November Issue of Windows IT Pro Magazine (on Page 9). Björn Lysell wrote:
"... I can recommend a freeware utility called Royal TS that you can use to group your connections in a simple GUI. You can read about and download Royal TS at the following URL: http://www.code4ward.net ..."
I am very proud that a tool which was done late 2003 using dotnet Framework 1.1 is still very popular and useful - It's even running smoothly on Windows Vista.