The said:
I'm having a problem opening another program so I was advised that
to rid myself of the problem I have to turn off 'Terminal
Services'. I have never heard of Terminal services & have idea as
to what it's supposed to do.
Where is this service located how do I turn it off.
Shenan said:
I would be curious as to two things first:
- What is the 'another program' you speak of? (Manufacturer,
Application name and Version...)
- Who 'advised' that you would have to turn off "Terminal
Services"?
The program is Sony Vegas video editing & the advise comes from one
of the guru's on the 'Creative Cow Vegas website'. I still have no
idea as to what these services are supposed to do. I ran the
"services.msc" command & found that I already have the setting set
to disabled. I have changed it to manual but have yet to reboot to
see if it fixes the problem.
Shenan said:
The software...?
One of these:
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/products/vegasfamily.asp?keycode=3138-3000
Do you have the latest updates?
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/download/updates/vegasfamily
Asked in their forums?
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/default.asp
Setting it from Disabled to Manual if the advice given was to turn
it off could actually be going against the given advice.
At "Disabled" - the service cannot run - no matter what calls it.
At "Manual" another service or application can tell it to start up.
In other words - "disabled" is "turned off" and "manual" is "wait
for a signal to tell you to start"...
The suggestion to turn off terminal services (allows remote control
of your computer) really makes little sense.
In the future - if you come up against a term you don;t understand
- I suggest:
Search using Google!
http://www.google.com/
(How-to:
http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/basics.html )
Shenan said:
I'd also feel like I slighted you - since you seem to be trying to
use video editing software - if I did not point you to this web
site:
http://www.videohelp.com/
Anything and everything about computer video editing...
I can't think of any instance where I would consider giving 'allows
remote control of your computer' since that would seem to be asking
for trouble.
Not really. A LOT of people use it all the time.
It's mainly for working remotely - when you are not sitting in front of your
computer. I have several setup this way.
One, in fact, so that i can process video during the day while I am at work.
A lot of the heavy processing does not require much more than me to start
it - it may take 3+ hours on some of the stuff I am processing. If I use
remote desktop (terminal services) - I can remotely start the process and
check in on it every few hours. If it finishes, I can start another and
without doing much of anything - I have completed two projects on my home
machine while hardly missing a beat at work. At best - before I was using
remote desktop - I could start one job before I left home in the morning.
Maybe start another *if* I went home for lunch.
Remote Desktop allows me to use my resources on one machine from anywhere in
the world with Internet capability. It is encrypted and the accounts that
you use on the mahcine have to have a password. It's fairly secure and can
be made more so with VPN and such.
I believe you are thinking of it in an over-simplistic way. It is not, "hey
everybody - hop on my machine", it is more like, "Now if I know my IP
address, have the correct holes in my software and hardware firewall and/or
have the correct ports forwarded through my NAT device and perhaps even get
extra encryption using a VPN tunnel - I can then remotely utilize my desktop
using my username and password to log into the system and see what i would
see sitting in front of it."
