I have a desktop with win 7 ultimate and a laptop with win 2000 pro.
Is it possible for me to log in to my desktop from the laptop without kicking out the user that's currently on the desktop?
I want to have a separate session.
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No. You need a server OS for this.
BUT.... I found this (untested but looks promising)...
http://www.blogsdna.com/2336/enable-multiple-user-accessconcurrent-user-sessions-for-remote-desktop-on-windows-7.htm
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I use Mac OSX. I now want to try and develop an app on windows 8 for the Imagine Cup.
But i dont want to switch back to windows.
Is there any way to develop apps for windows 8 from mac?
Preferably free option....
The only available way is to use Virtual Machine because one cannot develop Windows 8 Modern UI app(Windows Store app) even with lower version of windows than windows 8. There are many virtual machines are available for free. Virtualbox maybe a good start.
www.techspot.com/guides/503-windows-8-virtual-machine ,A Tutorial to create vm of windows 8.
Assuming that windows phone is the platform you chose to develop app, again you need windows to create windows phone app.
Kick start your windows phone app development here .
I actually use VMWare on a Mac to do all of my Win32 development on Windows 7 and VS2010.
You will need:
a powerful mac (i7)
lots of RAM (I have 8G, I wish I had 16G)
a 7200rpm HDD or SSD.
With that, it's really great for me. I've been doing this for a few months now without a single kernel panic or blue screen at all.
Note: You cannot really develop for WP7 using this sort of configuration. The WP7 simulator uses VirtualBox, which either runs extremely slowly or not at all in other VMs, based on our experience. Will need a real Windows machine for that ^_^
It's a workable scenario. Good luck!
I want to develop app for windows phone but I got a big problem, my laptop can't run the emulator, after checking the requirements I know that my vga driver doesn't support it. My question is, are there any alternative for windows phone emulator instead of the officially one from Microsoft? Or any other way to tweak it to be run on my laptop? Thanks
From my understanding there isn't any other windows phone emulators. If you can get a hold of a windows phone 7 it would be possible to test on that. You can try to contact a Microsoft windows phone evangelist in your area, the one in my area helped me get a phone to test on.
I am not sure about tweakinging your laptop to get the emulator to work. Is your vga driver up to date? If not maybe try to update it. I know it takes quite a bit of computer power to run the emulator smoothly.
If you wanted you can try to register for a virtual lab, here you remote into a windows machine and are able to build and test on the remote machine, but it is time limted and is usually for a class to learn about it. https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032485600&%3bculture=en-US
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My PC at work has Windows 7 Professional Edition which I know I cannot use the regular RDP to connect using 2 monitors.
Is there any alternative I can use to connect to a Windows 7 Professional Edition via RDP?
Just to clear this up
Windows 7 pro can use true multiple monitors when it is the client (connecting to server 2008/windows 7 ult or enterprise)
When it is the HOST (ie the one you are connecting to) it will only allow single monitor connections to it, the span option works to stretch the session over 2 screens but it ISNT true multimonitor mode
Sorry sam but you cant connect to windows 7 pro in tru multimon mode, the screenshot you have shown is the remote desktop client, hence why the options are there
The situation is that when Win7 Pro is the host (meaning it is the remote machine), it does NOT provide multiple monitor support.
No matter what settings you use on the client, you will get only a single monitor, if the host is Win7 Pro. Period.
The sad fact is that the Win7 FAQ - for a long time - said ALL versions of Win7 supported multiple monitors through RDP, without qualification.
After many users complained of this failing with Win7 Pro as the host, Microsoft fixed it - by changing the FAQ. Frankly, Microsoft owes this feature to all Win7 users, but Win8 is now the new (and obviously, at the time of this writing, failed) focus of attention.
There ARE programs out there that patch Windows Home to have full RDP hosting (actually, the 2008 server version, which allows multiple remote desktops). Apparently it is a single DLL and, possibly, some registry changes. I have no idea if they'd work for Pro, but my guess is that they would.
That said, if you have an IT department managing your host PC, you probably can't do this, and will have spend $130 to use the Anytime upgrade to the Ultimate version.
This despite the fact that the overwhelming desktop being remotely connected to at businesses is Pro. Yeah, I think MS just found a possible cash cow, and of course won't ever admit it, or live up the promise they made via their FAQ for quite a long time.
Win7 does have duel monitor support
WinXP does not
As long as the PC you are using, and the PC you are connected to is Win7, there should not be a problem. Also the PC you are Using the RDP connection from must have duel screens. If not you well have to use a VNC like Teamviewer.
See below
I have a windows 7 box at home that I VNC into for maintenance. That same Windows 7 box is also a HTPC (hooked up to the TV) that my kids use to watch movies while I'm at work. What I am trying to do is manage the machine without interrupting my family watching their stuff. I know I can SSH in, but would prefer something like a different session altogether.
Does anyone know if it is possible to VNC into a different session on Windows 7? Thanks!
This question doesn't belong here, but to answer your question: Remote desktop (built into every Windows PC) connects to a different session and has better performance than VNC.
I'm working on a new Windows Phone 7 project. Unfortunately, I have only access to a VMware Fusion instance of Windows, from where I run Visual Studio and the Phone Emulator.
My problem is that the phone emulator takes ages (well, seconds) just to show up for example the keyboard for user input (when selecting a TextBox).
I've read here that the problem comes from running a VM inside a VM.
My question is, if there is a trick which helps me to accelerate this somehow?
Thank you very much.
Cheers
EDIT:
Host machine: C2D 2.53Ghz, 4GB DDR3 RAM, SF-1200 SSD
I hate to say it, but the best solution is probably "don't run the emulator on a virtual machine". The emulator is only officially supported on a real physical machine.
Other than that, you will need to max out the resources available to the VM.
You're lucky you haven't ripped a hole in the fabric of spacetime by running an emulator on an emulator :)
See also: Windows Phone 7 emulator on a VM?, or Windows Mobile 7 Emulator Kills VMware