Aero and Remote desktop

[Guest]

Just an FYI. I was giving a presentation on Vista and we did not have a
Vista machine in the conference room so we decided to use remote desktop.
My machine at my desk has Aero turned on. When accessing the machine from a
XP laptop in the conference room, none of the Aero features were enabled.

Just a quirk, but a good one to know if you have to remote access a vista
machine and need to show aero features.

Happy Thursday!

 

[Rebel]

Aero is the theme...

you mean aero GLASS that uses the 3d desktop.

How could a remote session pass through the network all the data needed for
generating a 3d accelerated image on your local display?

It is logical that you cannot have glass on a remote desktop.

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

I think you will get Glass on the XP machine if you use the updated RDC for
Vista on XP.

Remote Desktop Connection 6.0 client:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925876

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

It does the rendering on the local adapter.

 

[Justin]

Just an FYI. I was giving a presentation on Vista and we did not have a
Vista machine in the conference room so we decided to use remote desktop.
My machine at my desk has Aero turned on. When accessing the machine from
a
XP laptop in the conference room, none of the Aero features were enabled.

Just a quirk, but a good one to know if you have to remote access a vista
machine and need to show aero features.

Happy Thursday!

Happy Thursday right back at ya!

Unfortunately, that is not a quirk.

You can not use Aero on a non Vista machine. Both machines must be Vista in
order for Aero to work over RDP. The system in which you are running the
RDP client must have Aero enabled and another goofy requirement is that the
remote client must be Ultimate or Enterprise. Unless something changed from
beta?

This is all aside from the new RDC 6.0 which I have not played with yet.
But I doubt it'll change anything seeing as how the local machine needs Aero
and I doubt the new client weighing in at 1.5MB does that.

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

Confirmed Justin, you are right it cannot.

 

[Rebel]

so where is the rendering happening on the local or remote pc....

if you have ultimate with a non aero capable card on the local machine
runing vista ultimate, will you be able to see rdp glass from the rdp
client, if the remote machine is indeed running glass, as you claim since
you say that the rendering is done on the remote pc?

 

[Justin]

Confirmed Justin, you are right it cannot.

Darn! I went to that link you gave and I saw the date April 4, 2007. I
thought they updated it but it said LAST REVIEW.

I'm waiting for an update to fix a problem I'm experiencing. Regardless of
my settings it connects with full bore Aero, background, everything. Which
takes forever to load then it takes even longer as it switches each thing
off. After about 10 minutes of waiting it's finally at a classic desktop
with no background. If my upload rate wasn't so crappy it wouldn't be a
problem and I could leave it on but my rate is so slow that it's painful.

Local network works fine.

 

[NoStop]

Confirmed Justin, you are right it cannot.

Justin is ALWAYS right. Justin is a very smart guy. Justin uses Vista and I
love Vista!!! Justin is my hero.

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[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

I use Vista too, just not on the machine I'm using now to post to ngs
because its too slow.

 

[DevilsPGD]

In message <#[email protected]> "Justin"

You can not use Aero on a non Vista machine. Both machines must be Vista in
order for Aero to work over RDP. The system in which you are running the
RDP client must have Aero enabled and another goofy requirement is that the
remote client must be Ultimate or Enterprise. Unless something changed from
beta?

Just to be pedantic, you can use Aero, just not Glass, right?

 

[DevilsPGD]

In message <#[email protected]> "Justin"

I'm waiting for an update to fix a problem I'm experiencing. Regardless of
my settings it connects with full bore Aero, background, everything. Which
takes forever to load then it takes even longer as it switches each thing
off. After about 10 minutes of waiting it's finally at a classic desktop
with no background. If my upload rate wasn't so crappy it wouldn't be a
problem and I could leave it on but my rate is so slow that it's painful.

IIRC, this happened under XP too, if you used apps that tried to set the
"system" desktop background rather then just your user background.

The system background was shown under the login window, and the default
background for users until a profile was created.

You could see this by using SysInternals' tool for adding text to your
background, with a bit of tweaking you could create a different
bitmapped background for the machine in a logged-off state, and when a
user logged in. A side effect was that when connecting via RDP, you
would see the background in it's full glory until it finished drawing,
then your RDP session preferences would take over.

 

[Justin]

The MS documentation said AERO. MS documentation usually doesn't make a
distinction between AERO and AERO glass. It's the 3D desktop environment in
general.