RDC freezing

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I recently installed XP Pro on a new machine. When I use the Remote Desktop
connection from home, I am constantly having it freeze on me. I have to
close the connection and reconnect. Then it works for a while and stops
again.
I have been using this connection to this location for a long time, just to
a different computer, and only had this problem once in a while.
The new machine is much more powerful with more RAM, ect. so before I assume
it is the problem, has anyone else had this happen and if so, what did you
find to be the problem?
Thanks in advance.
Tom
 
Maybe a video driver problem? Also check the Event Logs to see if anything jumps out at you...

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I am having the same issue. I am using RDP tgo connect from my XP laptop to my XP workstation at the office

It all works great, except that the connection mysteriously keeps dropping out. Most of the time it resets itself, but not always. Thus far, I do not have an answer as to why it is hapenning. If anyone knows, please advise

M.
 
I'm having a similar problem. I have two computers on the same network in
my home office. One is an older generic box running W2k Server. The other
is a new Toshiba Satellite running XP Pro.

I'm trying to connect to a client's machine also running XP Pro.

The Toshiba will connect, display the desktop and then freeze. It seems to
ignore all keyboard and mouse activity. I've left it connected for many
minutes to see if it would come to life with no luck. I just don't get it.

I downloaded the latest version of the RDP Client from Microsoft onto the
W2k Server machine. It connects to the client just fine.

I can use the remote desktop client on the Toshiba to connect to my server
and run the RDP client on the server to connect to my client and it works
fine.

The Toshiba also works fine connecting to several other client machines that
are running W2k Server. The problem seems to be having a WinXP Pro machine
trying to talk to another WinXP Pro machine.

I'd appreciate any insights that anyone might have.


Rudy
 
I also have this problem. I had it with two XP machines.

The behavior that I see is that after logging in, the remote system almost
immediately slows down and will not accept input. The mouse moves around.
Characters typed into a cmd window do not appear until the mouse is moved to
the start bar.

This does not happen to me every day. In my case I almost never log off my
remote machine - just lock the window. I run Office, Visio, Visual Studio,
and mostly other MS products on the remote machine. I have not tied this
behavior to anything. The local machine is running XP as well. I do think
it may be the result of some memory leak or other long running program
behavior. I leave Outlook running for long periods of time. I can go for
days before the problem appears. I do find that if I reboot the remote
machine, the problem is gone when I access it again.

This used to happen from one XP to another at work - no firewalls, VPN, etc.
Now it happens from my home XP getting to my office XP over VPN, internet,
through the firewall, etc. I do not believe this behavior is a network
problem!

I also am very interested in a solution!
 
I have the same problem, exactly as you described Rich.
It happens to me about 50% of the time I establish a RD
connection to my PC, either over VPN or locally.

I'm going to try lowering the Hardware Accelleration
setting for my video adapter. Right now it's set on
maximum.

Rob
 
That shouldn't have an effect as your video hardware doesn't impact a
RD session (but it can impact what happens after you terminate a
session).

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I see I am not the only one with this problem. It is still going on even
though I did try the video driver thing (I didn't think this was the
problem, but downloaded and installed the latest one anyway - you never know
what may fix something).
So - does anyone out there have an answer??
Sometimes I can work for 10-15 minutes, sometimes I just get logged in and
it is frozen. As stated in my original post, I did not have this problem
before the new machine "upgrade."
Could it have anything to do with the "new" XP service pack?
I don't remember if I had originally set anything different in the group
policy or registry on the old machine. Does anyone know of such settings
which may be causing this problem?
Thanks in advance.
Tom
 
By new XP Service Pack, are you referring to XP SP2? If so, remember
it is still in beta... However, I haven't seen it on my install..

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All,
I started a thread on this issue called "Remote Windows XP Freezes".
Please add to this thread. Thanks.
 
It seems to be working. I lowered the "hardware
acceleration" slidebar in the Display properties. Click
on the Advanced tab, then the Troubleshoot tab. Move the
slidebar down from "full." Lowering it one notch worked
for me. It resolved a very annoying problem.

Rob
 
That's weird... Perhaps it was a bad video driver that is causing
performance difficulties with acceleration.

Filed for future reference.

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