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Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is a proprietary protocol developed by Microsoft, which provides a user with a graphical interface to another computer.

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How is TeamViewer so fast?

Sorry about the length, it's kinda necessary. Introduction I'm developing a remote desktop software (just for fun) in C# 4.0 for Windows Vista/7. I've gotten through basic obstacles: I have a robust UDP messaging system, relatively clean program…
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Remote desktop connection protocol error 0x112f

When I try to connect to Windows 2012 Server using Remote Desktop Connection, I'm connected for about 1 sec. and then disconnected with following error: Because of a protocol error (code: 0x112f), the remote session will be disconnected. Until…
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Is there a way to connect through remote desktop to a running Windows Server container?

I want to run an old .NET application in a docker windows server container (https://hub.docker.com/r/microsoft/windowsservercore/). Everything would be easy if this application didn't require an UI. Its UI does a lot of stuff and this stuff cannot…
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Alternative to SendKeys when running over Remote Desktop?

I have an application which injects keystrokes into applications via SendKeys. Unfortunately, the application will not work when I am running it via Remote Desktop because of the well known issue that SendKeys doesn't work with Remote Desktop. Has…
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Read log file being used by another process

Goal I want to press a button on my GUI and read in the seclog.log file (symantec AV log) from a remote machine and display the contents of the log to a rich text box in my application. Things That Work everything but reading the log file Error…
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Cannot remote desktop into Windows Azure VM

I am running a trial of Windows Azure and setup a simple Windows Virtual Machine. However, I do not seem to be able to use the Windows Remote Desktop connection to remote into the machine. What am I doing wrong? At first sight it does not seem to…
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Unity mode for Remote Desktop

I typically have several remote desktop sessions going at the same time. Within these sessions I might be running different applications. VMware Workstation has a Unity mode that allows you to integrate guest applications with the host. I'd like…
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Oracle VirtualBox "VT-x is disabled in the BIOS"

I'm getting this error while loading an image from a Oracle virtual box. How can I fix it? I installed virtual box 4.3.12 via a remote desktop connection to a Windows 7 64-bit, 32G RAM computer. I have checked the Intel Visualization Setting, it…
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Keyboard shortcut to move away from a full-screen remote desktop session

Using remote desktop in full-screen, what is the shortest way to move to another app? (Without using the mouse, of course. I hate mice). I currently use one of the following: ctrl-alt-del, alt-t (get to local machine's taskmgr), alt-tab (move to…
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Java creates HUGE file when writing via Windows Remote Desktop (tsclient)

A client of ours reported a very weird issue when our Swing application is writing a file to the users local machine via Windows Remote Desktop (the application is hosted on a terminal server where users connects). The flow is: Users logon and run…
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login to remote using "mstsc /admin" with password

I want to use mstsc /admin to login to a server silently. My batch file reads the code as mstsc /v:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx /admin But it ask me to enter password. Can anyone help me to skip this step? I went on to Google and found this site. But I am very…
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Terminal session when minimized\disconnected returns a blank screen upon capturing desktop snapshot

I am using the below JAVA code to capture the desktop of a remote machine Robot robot = new Robot(); BufferedImage screenShot = robot.createScreenCapture(new Rectangle(Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize())); ByteArrayOutputStream…
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How do I start remote desktop from PowerShell?

How do I start an RDP session from powershell? I'm looking to avoid a custom script because I work at an MSP and end up remoting into machines across various domains in a day and so maintaining a selection of scripts across each is not trivial…
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xrdp ubuntu aws missing text

I can connect to my remote desktop (Ubuntu 16.04) in AWS but I cant view the text at all. I am using Microsoft Remote Desktop 10 in Apple's App Store. So I cant login properly as explained here.
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how does teamviewer find my computer even if my comp. behind of the firewall and firewall isn't configured?

Did you use teamviewer? (comic question i know... Who doesn't use it?) Do you have any idea how does teamviewer make connection even if i am behind the router, firewall, switch and my local firewall..? I'm trying to imagine a connection that is…
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