Remote Desktop Connection and Orange Logon Screen

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CliffV

I use remote desktop connection on my home network between two of my Vista
machines. The client is Vista Home Premium (I'll call this machine Laptop)
and the server is Vista Ultimate (I'll call this machine Desktop). After I
disconnect the remote desktop connection from the Desktop, the logon screen
on the Desktop machine has an Orange background instead of the normal Blue
background.

This wouldn't bother me, except that while in this mode the display doesn't
power down after 20 minutes even though I have my power plan set to "Turn off
Display" after 20 minutes.

If I do anything on the Desktop machine such as wiggle my mouse, the Blue
background returns and the display powers off normally.

Any hints on what I might try to solve this?
 
CliffV said:
I use remote desktop connection on my home network between two of my
Vista
machines. The client is Vista Home Premium (I'll call this machine
Laptop)
and the server is Vista Ultimate (I'll call this machine Desktop).
After I
disconnect the remote desktop connection from the Desktop, the logon
screen
on the Desktop machine has an Orange background instead of the normal
Blue
background.

This wouldn't bother me, except that while in this mode the display
doesn't
power down after 20 minutes even though I have my power plan set to
"Turn off
Display" after 20 minutes.

If I do anything on the Desktop machine such as wiggle my mouse, the
Blue
background returns and the display powers off normally.

Any hints on what I might try to solve this?
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You might verify your running the latest drivers for your video
hardware.

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Sooner Al said:
You might verify your running the latest drivers for your video
hardware.

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Al Jarvi (MS-MVP Windows – Desktop User Experience)

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That did it. The problem is now solved.

I have an ASUS EN8600GT video card. I was running the V178.15 version of
their driver. I tried both V175.19 from the Asus website and V178.24 from
the Nvidia website. Neither driver has this problem.

Thanks,
Cliff
 
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