Remote Desktop: XP -> Vista

A few days ago I mentioned I'd post results of remoting into a Vista box
from an XP box. Here's what happens:

Remoting from XP to Vista setup is still simple. I get good performance as
well. However, glass and Aero do not come across Remote Desktop. These are
there when at the Vista box.

Here's the hardware configuration:

Vista box:
- 4GB DDR2 6400 RAM with Intel Core2 Duo E6600
- (2) 7200 RPM SATA drives
- no video card. I have an Intel DG965ss motherboard and use the integrated
video with system memory. After all, it is Remote Desktop. I get a 3.7 and
3.8 performance index score on the two video components (locally of course).
Enough for glass and Aero.

XP box video is 128MB NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5700. That should be plenty for
Aero and glass. Not sure why it isn't working.

The boxes are connected wirelessly and only a few feet apart.

Unfortunately VS.NET 2005 doesn't work properly on Vista. It will not open
any projects. So for now, I'm running it out of Virtual PC, which I have a
few running at any given time.

Brett

Brett--

There is another way for you to connect to the XP desktop from the Vista
desktop *if as you say these boxes are connected on the network wirelsesly.

You can simply type into an IE address bar or the run box or an IE address
bar put into the task bar by right clicking it> toolbar>address

Whaterver driver you're using on the XP box\\Documents and Settings\Whatever
Profile is on that XP Box and then you will hit the XP desktop and can drag
a shortcut from that folder to your Vista desktop.

Suppose that on the XP desktop Vista is on drive C or E:

C:\Documents and Settings\Brett's or whomever's Profile on that wirelessly
connected box\Desktop should allow you to shortcut to the XP desktop.

Or you can work from the XP desktop to do the same thing to connect to the
Vista desktop only the pathway is going to be

C:\ or whatever drive Vista is on\Users\Profile on the Vista box\Desktop

I'm not sure if the Video Card on the XP box is going to influence Aero even
forced on the connected Vista box. I would think that is going to be
influenced ***by the Video Card you have on that Vista box.

I'll let someone familiar Visual Stuido .net address VS on Vista, but I
know that Vista doesn't support some versions of VS.

http://pointerx.net/blogs/glozano/ar...ows-Vista.aspx

but that Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack is supported by Vista.
Tuesday, September 26, 2006 7:12 A

Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Beta and Visual Studio support for Vista

http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/arch...26/772250.aspx

CH


"Brett" <public_at_cygen_dot_com> wrote in message
news:OaiZtTWGHHA.924@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>A few days ago I mentioned I'd post results of remoting into a Vista box
>from an XP box. Here's what happens:
>
> Remoting from XP to Vista setup is still simple. I get good performance
> as well. However, glass and Aero do not come across Remote Desktop.
> These are there when at the Vista box.
>
> Here's the hardware configuration:
>
> Vista box:
> - 4GB DDR2 6400 RAM with Intel Core2 Duo E6600
> - (2) 7200 RPM SATA drives
> - no video card. I have an Intel DG965ss motherboard and use the
> integrated video with system memory. After all, it is Remote Desktop. I
> get a 3.7 and 3.8 performance index score on the two video components
> (locally of course). Enough for glass and Aero.
>
> XP box video is 128MB NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5700. That should be plenty for
> Aero and glass. Not sure why it isn't working.
>
> The boxes are connected wirelessly and only a few feet apart.
>
> Unfortunately VS.NET 2005 doesn't work properly on Vista. It will not
> open any projects. So for now, I'm running it out of Virtual PC, which I
> have a few running at any given time.
>
> Brett
>

The sentence "whatever driver" should have read "whatever DRIVE" --sorry for
the typo.

CH


"Chad Harris" <msftneedstogetoutvistainfo.net> wrote in message
news:eV2f9eWGHHA.1276@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Brett--
>
> There is another way for you to connect to the XP desktop from the Vista
> desktop *if as you say these boxes are connected on the network
> wirelsesly.
>
> You can simply type into an IE address bar or the run box or an IE address
> bar put into the task bar by right clicking it> toolbar>address
>
> Whaterver driver you're using on the XP box\\Documents and
> Settings\Whatever Profile is on that XP Box and then you will hit the XP
> desktop and can drag a shortcut from that folder to your Vista desktop.
>
> Suppose that on the XP desktop Vista is on drive C or E:
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\Brett's or whomever's Profile on that
> wirelessly connected box\Desktop should allow you to shortcut to the XP
> desktop.
>
> Or you can work from the XP desktop to do the same thing to connect to the
> Vista desktop only the pathway is going to be
>
> C:\ or whatever drive Vista is on\Users\Profile on the Vista box\Desktop
>
> I'm not sure if the Video Card on the XP box is going to influence Aero
> even forced on the connected Vista box. I would think that is going to be
> influenced ***by the Video Card you have on that Vista box.
>
> I'll let someone familiar Visual Stuido .net address VS on Vista, but I
> know that Vista doesn't support some versions of VS.
>
> http://pointerx.net/blogs/glozano/ar...ows-Vista.aspx
>
> but that Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack is supported by Vista.
> Tuesday, September 26, 2006 7:12 A
>
> Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Beta and Visual Studio support for Vista
>
> http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/arch...26/772250.aspx
>
> CH
>
>
> "Brett" <public_at_cygen_dot_com> wrote in message
> news:OaiZtTWGHHA.924@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>A few days ago I mentioned I'd post results of remoting into a Vista box
>>from an XP box. Here's what happens:
>>
>> Remoting from XP to Vista setup is still simple. I get good performance
>> as well. However, glass and Aero do not come across Remote Desktop.
>> These are there when at the Vista box.
>>
>> Here's the hardware configuration:
>>
>> Vista box:
>> - 4GB DDR2 6400 RAM with Intel Core2 Duo E6600
>> - (2) 7200 RPM SATA drives
>> - no video card. I have an Intel DG965ss motherboard and use the
>> integrated video with system memory. After all, it is Remote Desktop. I
>> get a 3.7 and 3.8 performance index score on the two video components
>> (locally of course). Enough for glass and Aero.
>>
>> XP box video is 128MB NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5700. That should be plenty
>> for Aero and glass. Not sure why it isn't working.
>>
>> The boxes are connected wirelessly and only a few feet apart.
>>
>> Unfortunately VS.NET 2005 doesn't work properly on Vista. It will not
>> open any projects. So for now, I'm running it out of Virtual PC, which I
>> have a few running at any given time.
>>
>> Brett
>>
>

On 06/12/2006 in message <OaiZtTWGHHA.924@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl> Brett wrote:

>Unfortunately VS.NET 2005 doesn't work properly on Vista. It will not
>open any projects. So for now, I'm running it out of Virtual PC, which I
>have a few running at any given time.

No issues with VS 2005 here - I just fired it up using remote desktop from
this laptop, loaded, compiled and ran an app. I have turned off UAC
though, it breaks too many things.

--
Jeff Gaines

"Jeff Gaines" <whitedragon@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
news:xn0eunk1e8aujg00a@msnews.microsoft.com...
> On 06/12/2006 in message <OaiZtTWGHHA.924@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl> Brett
> wrote:
>
>>Unfortunately VS.NET 2005 doesn't work properly on Vista. It will not
>>open any projects. So for now, I'm running it out of Virtual PC, which I
>>have a few running at any given time.
>
> No issues with VS 2005 here - I just fired it up using remote desktop from
> this laptop, loaded, compiled and ran an app. I have turned off UAC
> though, it breaks too many things.

I've turned off UAC as well. For Studio, I get this when I try to open my
web application:

The project file 'c:\myproj.csproj' cannot be opened.
The project type is not supported by this installation.

I have installed the web application extensions for Studio. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Brett

On 06/12/2006 in message <e$q$F1WGHHA.1264@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl> Brett
wrote:

>
>"Jeff Gaines" <whitedragon@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
>news:xn0eunk1e8aujg00a@msnews.microsoft.com...
>>On 06/12/2006 in message <OaiZtTWGHHA.924@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl> Brett
>>wrote:
>>
>>>Unfortunately VS.NET 2005 doesn't work properly on Vista. It will not
>>>open any projects. So for now, I'm running it out of Virtual PC, which I
>>>have a few running at any given time.
>>
>>No issues with VS 2005 here - I just fired it up using remote desktop from
>> this laptop, loaded, compiled and ran an app. I have turned off UAC though, it breaks too many things.
>
>I've turned off UAC as well. For Studio, I get this when I try to open my
>web application:
>
>The project file 'c:\myproj.csproj' cannot be opened.
>The project type is not supported by this installation.
>
>I have installed the web application extensions for Studio. Any ideas?
>
>Thanks,
>Brett

Sorry, my stuff is all Winforms, web apps are a mystery to me :-)

I expect you will have seen this:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa948853.aspx

in fact you may have written it - if so apologies!

--
Jeff Gaines

Are you using the RDP 6.0 client for XP?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925876

--
Kerry
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2



Brett wrote:
> A few days ago I mentioned I'd post results of remoting into a Vista
> box from an XP box. Here's what happens:
>
> Remoting from XP to Vista setup is still simple. I get good
> performance as well. However, glass and Aero do not come across
> Remote Desktop. These are there when at the Vista box.
>
> Here's the hardware configuration:
>
> Vista box:
> - 4GB DDR2 6400 RAM with Intel Core2 Duo E6600
> - (2) 7200 RPM SATA drives
> - no video card. I have an Intel DG965ss motherboard and use the
> integrated video with system memory. After all, it is Remote
> Desktop. I get a 3.7 and 3.8 performance index score on the two video
> components (locally of
> course). Enough for glass and Aero.
>
> XP box video is 128MB NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5700. That should be
> plenty for Aero and glass. Not sure why it isn't working.
>
> The boxes are connected wirelessly and only a few feet apart.
>
> Unfortunately VS.NET 2005 doesn't work properly on Vista. It will
> not open any projects. So for now, I'm running it out of Virtual PC,
> which I have a few running at any given time.
>
> Brett

> I expect you will have seen this:
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa948853.aspx
>
> in fact you may have written it - if so apologies!
>

Yes - I've seen that but it doesn't help.

I'll create a small winform app and see if it opens.

Brett

If Remote Desktop on WinXP uses RDP, than yes. I'll try the service pack.
Thanks.

Brett

"Kerry Brown" <kerry@kdbNOSPAMsys-tems.c*a*m> wrote in message
news:%23GepJRXGHHA.3668@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Are you using the RDP 6.0 client for XP?
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925876
>
> --
> Kerry
> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
> www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2
>
>
>
> Brett wrote:
>> A few days ago I mentioned I'd post results of remoting into a Vista
>> box from an XP box. Here's what happens:
>>
>> Remoting from XP to Vista setup is still simple. I get good
>> performance as well. However, glass and Aero do not come across
>> Remote Desktop. These are there when at the Vista box.
>>
>> Here's the hardware configuration:
>>
>> Vista box:
>> - 4GB DDR2 6400 RAM with Intel Core2 Duo E6600
>> - (2) 7200 RPM SATA drives
>> - no video card. I have an Intel DG965ss motherboard and use the
>> integrated video with system memory. After all, it is Remote
>> Desktop. I get a 3.7 and 3.8 performance index score on the two video
>> components (locally of
>> course). Enough for glass and Aero.
>>
>> XP box video is 128MB NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5700. That should be
>> plenty for Aero and glass. Not sure why it isn't working.
>>
>> The boxes are connected wirelessly and only a few feet apart.
>>
>> Unfortunately VS.NET 2005 doesn't work properly on Vista. It will
>> not open any projects. So for now, I'm running it out of Virtual PC,
>> which I have a few running at any given time.
>>
>> Brett
>
>

> You can simply type into an IE address bar or the run box or an IE address
> bar put into the task bar by right clicking it> toolbar>address

Chad -

You mention the web remote desktop connection from vista to XP, however just
typing in the ip of the Vista box into the XP browsers address bar does not
connect to the Vista box. I have tried with both IE7 and FF. Is there
something that needs to be enabled in either Vista or XP to allow the above
connection?