Archive for November, 2008
Quickly enable and disable Aero in Windows Vista
November 21st, 2008. Published under Uncategorized. No Comments.
There are many articles out there on this already, but I think this one on Tweaking with Vishal is one of the better. Vishal lists not only the command line arguments…
Activate Aero:
rundll32 dwmApi #102
Deactivate Aero:
rundll32 dwmApi #104
…but also gives directions to add these commands to both the Desktop context menu and the My Computer context menu. Very cool.
Remote Desktop (Server) in Windows XP Home Edition
November 14th, 2008. Published under Uncategorized. No Comments.
The folks over at My Digital Life have a blog post that explains how to install the necessary files for Terminal Services and trick the OS so Windows XP Home Edition will allow incoming Remote Desktop sessions. Frankly, the lack of Remote Desktop in Home edition is the biggest drawback to this version of XP. Still, I’m a huge fan and pretty much an everyday user of UltraVNC, but that isn’t as easy to set up for non-technical persons like the built-in Remote Desktop application. Anyway, go check out the article.