Devang Gandhi » Computers

How to send Ctrl-Alt-Del to a remote desktop

Devang Gandhi — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 02:23:10 +0000

When you try to do Ctrl-Alt-Del in a remote desktop session, you will find that it will instead be performed on your computer instead of the remote computer. The key combination for the same action to be performed on a remote computer is Ctrl-Alt-End from within your remote desktop session.

Also check out these remote desktop keyboard shortcuts.

Trust relationship failure in Windows 7

Devang Gandhi — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 03:12:57 +0000

I tried logging onto my computer and instead of getting logged on, I got this failure:

The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed.

Thanks to this blog post, I was able to resolve the issue.

Command to find logged-on users on Windows Vista

Devang Gandhi — Tue, 05 May 2009 08:10:37 +0000

If you are using one of the public/lab machines and want to find out information about the users logged on to that machine, just open the command prompt (Start->Run, type “cmd”) and type

query user

For each user, it returns information like username, sessionname, id, state, idle time and logon time. If the state is “active”, that means the user is currently logged on. If the sessionname is something like “rdp-tcp#0″, that means the user is connected to the machine over a remote desktop session.

Macbook Air – disappointed customer

Devang Gandhi — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:32:06 +0000

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“ReadyBoost” your slow Windows Vista machine

Devang Gandhi — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 02:59:47 +0000

Older systems that are upgraded to Windows Vista may run slower if they have less RAM. Just today I came to know that Vista has a built in solution for that without having to buy more RAM. It is a Vista feature called “ReadyBoost”. It allows the system to use a USB flash drive as additional memory. You can check out Tom Archer’s blog for details.

I think it is a really cool feature and I am not sure how many people know it or are using it. It is a very inexpensive way of improving the performance of your system.