Thursday, October 13, 2005
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Remote Desktop Rocks!

One of the slickest features of Windows XP is Remote Desktop (also known as "Terminal Services".)  This little utility allows you to connect to another XP box and (you'll never guess) control it remotely.  There are 2 primary ways of running RD:

1. From the run prompt, type "mstsc", and click OK:

2. Select is from the start menu:

One of the most useful abilities of RD is copying and pasting files between your host XP session and your remote XP session.  In order to enable this behavior, you must enable the connecting of diskdrives when connecting to a remote computer:

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Thursday, October 13, 2005 9:32:52 PM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [1]  |  Related posts:
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I love this feature as well.
One shortcut that people might want to know, is from start/run, how to connect to a specific machine.

typing "mstsc /v:MachineName" does that.
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