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Old 02-20-2007
Robert Moir
 

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Re: Any reason Session ID = 1 instead of 0 on Vista?
Joseph Geretz wrote:
> For as long as I can remember, Session ID for a console session has
> been 0. We use this value to identify when our software is running
> from the console, or running from within a TS or Citrix session. For
> a variety of reasons, we need to know.
>
> Anyway, I'm finding that Vista assigns Session ID of 1 to the console
> session. Any reason for this, or just for the purposes of ensuring
> minimal backward compatibility?


It's done for a reason. If you read the old new thing blog at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing you'll see that whatever other
numerous faults we can assign to Microsoft, going around changing important
system parameters just for a giggle to see how many apps they can break in
one day isn't really one of them.

http://www.realvnc.com/pipermail/vnc...er/056565.html might be
of interest to you also.


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