Remote Desktop Black Screen?!

Log to your PC at work and get a black screen, what should you do? No need to panic, you can try CTRL-ALT-END, which is the way you send CTRL-ALT-DEL to your remote desktop. 

Hope this helps you.

Creating platform specific apps for .Net development

Creating platform specific apps

Most of the language compilers (like C#) now offer a /platform switch. By using this switch, developers can create binaries targeted for a specific platform type or binaries that are platform agnostic. There are four types of binaries that are emitted

· anycpu – platform agnostic

· x86 – 32-bit platform specific

· x64 – x64 platform specific

· itanium – IA platform specific

Please refer to Moving from 32-bit to 64-bit application development on .NET Framework.

How to view the corflags(ILONLY, 32BitRequired etc.) of a PE image?
corflags.exe Core32.dll

Replace File Explorer with XPlorer 2

Need a tabbed file explorer?
Try Xplorer 2 out.
Please refer to here.
Aslo: need tabbed console? here you are.

Disabling Windows' native Zip folder support

To prevent Windows XP from treating compressed Zip files as a folder, go to "Start > Run" and type the following:
regsvr32 /u zipfldr
If you wish to restore native Zip support in Windows, just go back to "Start > Run" and type the following:
regsvr32 zipfldr


Thanks to this blog entry.

The terminal server has exceeded the maximum number of allowed connections?!

From time to time, I ran into the following warning(errors) when I tried to remote desktop to one of our development box. Here is something I found to figure out who has left his connected connections on the desktop, maybe you can boot them out, if you have permission:
1. mstsc /v:00.00.00.00 /console
Replace 00.00.00.00 with your server's IP Address.
2. Start Terminal Services Manger (Administrative Tools -> Terminal Services Manager, or tsadmin.exe).

Here are some details.