I have seen this issue too many times now, so I have to write this short blog about it!

Have you ever seen this error when trying to connect to a Remote Desktop enabled machine using MSTSC/Remote Desktop Client:

Remote Desktop Disconnected
The client could not connect to the remote computer. Remote connections might not be enabled or the computer might be too busy to accept new connections. It is also possible that network problems are preventing your connection. Please try connecting again later. If the problem continues to occur, contact your administrator.

Well, I’ve seen it so many times now, especially on ISA servers… Even after the RDP sessions have worked nicely, sometimes, for some reason, the RDP settings can be changed - or even “corrupted”. In most cases the above error has something to do with NIC (Network Interface Card) adapter binding to RDP.

If you are experiencing this issue go read the Microsoft KB article: “You can not establish a Remote Desktop session to a computer running one of the affected products”. You will find it here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555382 - good luck!

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SOURCE DATA:

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Look at the several code samples provided in the CODE SAMPLES section to see how the code is used.

Download compiled help docs here: dsdocs.zip or view DataStreams docs online.

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• Simple access to field data by index or by field name
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• Standard comma and tab delimited data
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• Alternate text qualifiers
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• Occurrences of text qualifier within text qualified field using doubled up syntax
• Alternate backslash text qualifier escaping syntax
• Occurrences of any character, including record end delimiters inside text qualified fields
• Automatic trimming of leading and trailing spaces and tabs in a non text qualified field
• Using one char that’s normally used as a record end delimiter as a field delimiter and a different one as the record end delimiter as commonly used in Unix files with CR as the field delimiter and LF as the record delimiter
• All encodings, ANSI, UTF-8, Unicode, ASCII, etc
• First record containing field names
• Reading data from a System.IO.StreamReader that’s wrapped around a System.IO.Stream that can come from anywhere, not just a System.IO.FileStream

If you have an unsupported format, or are unsure whether the format is supported, please email bruce@csvreader.com.

For more info Visit: http://www.csvreader.com/

Seeing how hard it is to find themes for Vista, I decided to make this Topic. After searching around for quite some time, I have found some good Themes, and some bad ones.

First of all, you need to patch your UXtheme.dll if you haven’t already. You can find that here, instructions are included.

When you download the theme, extract the files into C:\Windows\Resources\Themes. Right click on the desktop and go to Personalise, click on Window Colour and Appearance, then click Open classic appearance properties for more colour options. You will see that Windows Aero and Windows Vista Basic have been duplicated. Don’t worry, they are the new themes. Click on them and you can change the theme as you wish.

Always read the ReadMe files.

Themes:

• VistaRemix new.gif ( 120bytes ) Number of downloads: 8
• Aero 4074 Blue Sky new.gif ( 120bytes ) Number of downloads: 8
• Tiberium new.gif ( 120bytes ) Number of downloads: 8
• Aero MaX Dark Live
• Maxximum Aero Live
• HilledSE
• AeroClear Glass
• LunaVista
• RedEye Vista
• BlueEye Vista
• Longhorn Beta 1 Style
• Visinti
• Aurora Full Glass
• Vectrum
• Aero 4074 Remix
• AeroClear Greaphit

Shell Styles:

• Metals Set new.gif ( 120bytes ) Number of downloads: 8
• Antique Red new.gif ( 120bytes ) Number of downloads: 8
• Pastel new.gif ( 120bytes ) Number of downloads: 8
• Four Colored Shells new.gif ( 120bytes ) Number of downloads: 8
• Ultimate Vista
• WMP11
• Energy Vista
• ShadowStyle
• Longhorn
• RedandBlue Aurora

Please post any Themes or Shell Styles here that aren’t listed. I will add them to the list asap.

Enjoy

If you are using a 64-bit (x64) version of Windows Vista, then this is something you should know. By default, the shortcut in the Start menu points to the 32-bit (x86) executable for Disk Cleanup. While Disk Cleanup will work fine from this shortcut for most things, there is one function that does not work correctly – the cleaning of System Restore points and Shadow Copies / Previous Versions.

Note that if you launch Disk Cleanup from another location in Windows, for instance by clicking the “Disk Cleanup” button on a drives properties window, it will launch the correct executable for Disk Cleanup.

If you want to correct the Disk Cleanup shortcut in the Start menu, follow these steps:

1. Click on Start, All Programs, Accessories, and then click on System Tools.
2. Right click on “Disk Cleanup” and from the context menu that appears click on “Properties”.
3. Change the “Target” from “%SystemRoot%\SysWOW64\cleanmgr.exe” to “%SystemRoot%\system32\cleanmgr.exe”.
4. Click on OK. If User Account Control prompts you for consent, click on Continue or provide the appropriate credentials.

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