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I have an extremely annoying problem with the Remote Desktop in WinXP over a
WLAN connection.
My Remote Desktop is often in the mood of not keeping its connection
properly, and it then has to reconnect for some seconds (1-30 seconds) and
during this time some things seem to freeze on the remote computer, most
noticably Winamp - which pauses playing during this time.
(The remote computer is an old Dell desktop computer running Winamp playing
files from its own hard drive and out through an USB sound card, and I'm
sitting at a newer IBM laptop connected via WLAN to a D-Link router wired to
the remote computer. Both run WinXP Pro SP2.)
I find it extremely stupid that the programs on the remote computer can
freeze due to something that doesn't have to do with them at all, but the
main question is why Remote Desktop randomly loses connection in the first
place.
The reconnections/freezes really seem to happen at random - Sometimes it's
less than a minute between them, often 5-10 minutes, sometimes several hours
or a whole day without problems. Sometimes I'm running lots of filesharing
programs etc on the remote computer and sometimes I don't, sometimes I reboot
more often just to be sure, but I still see no pattern whatsoever. It's sooo
frustrating, and it's really killing me!
A perhaps interesting detail is that I've tried to find the same
disconnection problem over LAN instead of WLAN, but it never appeared during
the hours I tested it. So, it seems to fail just over WLAN.
Btw, it doesn't seem to be a total network disconnection during the freeze,
since there is never any indication in any other program on the laptop. I
have even tested to browse remote files in the Explorer during the freeze and
everything seems normal there. It is just the Remote Desktop connection that
fails.
I'm thinking mostly in terms of Services... maybe some important Windows
services need to be started on some of the computers in order to make the
Remote Desktop connection stable?
There are way too many services and too little hints of which one does what,
and when problems arise or configurations are wrong the whole Windows system
is user-unfriendly to say the least, so I have no clue which combination of
services to start to have a probable stable connection. One thing I know,
though, is that the 'Computer Browser' service on my laptop won't start due
to some misaligned registry bits and bytes.
Some months ago I installed the new version (6.0) of Remote Desktop from
Windows Update, so now it shows a little blue dialogue while reconnecting,
otherwise it's the same problem. I was hoping that the dilemma would
disappear, but no. (It's actually worse: the new version's window sometimes
takes focus by itself when I press ctrl-c och ctrl-v in some other program,
showing its reconnection dialogue. Extremely lame. Who would ever want it to
do that?)
Can anyone shed some light on my glitching Remote Desktop?
Thanks,
M
WLAN connection.
My Remote Desktop is often in the mood of not keeping its connection
properly, and it then has to reconnect for some seconds (1-30 seconds) and
during this time some things seem to freeze on the remote computer, most
noticably Winamp - which pauses playing during this time.
(The remote computer is an old Dell desktop computer running Winamp playing
files from its own hard drive and out through an USB sound card, and I'm
sitting at a newer IBM laptop connected via WLAN to a D-Link router wired to
the remote computer. Both run WinXP Pro SP2.)
I find it extremely stupid that the programs on the remote computer can
freeze due to something that doesn't have to do with them at all, but the
main question is why Remote Desktop randomly loses connection in the first
place.
The reconnections/freezes really seem to happen at random - Sometimes it's
less than a minute between them, often 5-10 minutes, sometimes several hours
or a whole day without problems. Sometimes I'm running lots of filesharing
programs etc on the remote computer and sometimes I don't, sometimes I reboot
more often just to be sure, but I still see no pattern whatsoever. It's sooo
frustrating, and it's really killing me!
A perhaps interesting detail is that I've tried to find the same
disconnection problem over LAN instead of WLAN, but it never appeared during
the hours I tested it. So, it seems to fail just over WLAN.
Btw, it doesn't seem to be a total network disconnection during the freeze,
since there is never any indication in any other program on the laptop. I
have even tested to browse remote files in the Explorer during the freeze and
everything seems normal there. It is just the Remote Desktop connection that
fails.
I'm thinking mostly in terms of Services... maybe some important Windows
services need to be started on some of the computers in order to make the
Remote Desktop connection stable?
There are way too many services and too little hints of which one does what,
and when problems arise or configurations are wrong the whole Windows system
is user-unfriendly to say the least, so I have no clue which combination of
services to start to have a probable stable connection. One thing I know,
though, is that the 'Computer Browser' service on my laptop won't start due
to some misaligned registry bits and bytes.
Some months ago I installed the new version (6.0) of Remote Desktop from
Windows Update, so now it shows a little blue dialogue while reconnecting,
otherwise it's the same problem. I was hoping that the dilemma would
disappear, but no. (It's actually worse: the new version's window sometimes
takes focus by itself when I press ctrl-c och ctrl-v in some other program,
showing its reconnection dialogue. Extremely lame. Who would ever want it to
do that?)
Can anyone shed some light on my glitching Remote Desktop?
Thanks,
M