How to Use Remote Desktop to connect to other computers on your Network

Your network may consist of simply two computers that run off a router that is connected to the same modem. Or maybe you have a more elaborate network, but either way Remote desktop can be handy sometimes. It enables you to access the others computers on your network by Using the computers information. For example you could use a laptop that is wirelessly connected to your network to work on another computer in your house. You can remote desktop to another computer, sign in, and check emails, delete files, and more.

What will I need to remote desktop to another computer?

To remote desktop to another computer on your network you will need to know the computers name or IP address, the username you want to sign in to, and the password.

First you have to enable your computer to allow users to connect to it remotely.

1. Go to the System Properties box 
2. Choose the Remote Tab
3. The Check the box that says Allow users to connect remotely to this computer
4. Do this on all of the computers you want to use Remote Desktop with.

What will I need to remote desktop to another computer?

To remote desktop to another computer on your network you will need to know the computers name or IP address, the username you want to sign in to, and the password.

How do you find the information for the computer you want to connect to?

1. Get the Ip Address Here’s how
2. Find the user name. Click on the start menu and the username will be there at the top next to the picture.
3. You must know the password for the username account you want to connect to. If there isn’t one you should make one.

Where is the remote desktop connection box?

1. Go to the start menu in the left corner and choose All Programs
2. Then choose accessories, then Communications, then Remote Desktop Connection

1. A Remote desktop box will appear.

How to connect two computers by remote desktop?

1. Choose options.
2. On the general tab where it says computer, type in the IP Address. Then type in the username of the computer you want to connect to, and then the password. Press connect.

Extra tips on how to use remote desktop:

• Your internet connection must be running on all computers involved for this to work.
• The computer you want to connect to must be running. If it is off there can be no connection.
• You must have your information totally correct to connect.
• If you leave your IP Address on automatic, it changes every time you connect to the network. This is not for using remote desktop as you have to find out the IP Address when you want to connect.
• Remote desktop allows you to take control of an entire computer. ( not share between computers)
• You can even burn cd’s by remote desktop as long as there is a blank cd in the computer you are connecting to.
• When using remote desktop you can do anything you normally would if you were actually on the computer, except bring up the task manager of the computer.

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Change Desktop Folder location.

Special folders such as My Documents, Desktop, and so on can be changed to any other location from that set by the default installation. Many users place the folder and file just in desktop for simplicity but when windows crashes and format the widows installation drive to regain widows. This resuts of lossing your important files on desktop and my document to. To prevent loss the important files and folder, you can change the default location of Desktop and My Documents location. There is other hacks to but this one is easier. First of all just move the required folders to the new locations say D:\Desktop

Then Navigate to

HCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders

You can see other important folder location too.

Open this Registry key and edit the full path for each special folder with the corresponding new path. 
For example, 
the default location of the Desktop folder is C:\Documentsand Settings\username\Desktop. 
Move the folder to say, D:\Desktop,

and update the value for the Personal setting with the new path, that is, D:\Desktop,

without the quotes.

The change should take effect immediately. If not, logoff or restart your computer. Now any file or folder you created at desktop will be created at your new location.

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To add copy and move to folder to context menu

You can easily copy or move your folder or files to desired location.

Following registry setting is to show "copy to" and "move to" in context menu, show that you can easily move you file and folders.

Open the Registry Editor click on the Start-button on your taskbar, then click on Run and type "regedit" and click on Ok to start the regedit utility.

Navigate the following key

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFilesystemObjects\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers

Right-click the "ContextMenuHandlers" entry, and from the menu select New -> Key.

Name the new key Copy To.

Repeat step 3, but this time for the name (step 4) choose Move To.

Change the (Default) string value found in the Copy To key to {C2FBB630-2971-11D1-A18C-00C04FD75D13}.

Change the (Default) string value found in the Move To key to {C2FBB631-2971-11D1-A18C-00C04FD75D13}.

The modifications you made will be in effect after you reboot your PC.

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Remove the Security Tab

This restriction removes the Security tab from Windows explorer which prevents users from accessing or changing the security permissions of folder and file objects.
Navigate the following key:
Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
and create Dword value NoSecurityTab and give the value 1.

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P2V error - BlockLevelVolumeCloneMgr and Sysimgbase_DiskLib_Write

The other day we had to do a number of hot P2V's on some Citrix servers running Win2k3. I had succesfully completed a test migration a week before (with VMware Converter Standalone 5 installed locally on the source) on one of the same servers but when we re-initiated the P2V in the planned maintenance window, both servers failed at 90-something percent with an error stating the following:

SingleVolumeCloneTask:DoRun: Volume cloning failed with clone error BlockLevelVolumeCloneMgr::CloneVolume: Detected a write error during the cloning of volume \WindowsBitmapDriverVolumeId=[08-03-AE-BE-00-40-00-00-00-00-00-00]. Error: 37409 (type: 1, code: 2338)

This log entry is found by right clicking the job in Converter and choosing 'export logs'. Locate the file called vmware-converter-worker-X.log (where X is an incremental integer).

The above error message seems to indicate that there is a problem on the source disk. We tried running checkdisk which showed no errors and we defragmented all drives. Same error occurred.

Looking a bit more at the logs, I found the following entries which pointed towards a network error:


[NFC ERROR] NfcSendMessage: send failed: NFC_NETWORK_ERROR
[NFC ERROR] NfcFssrvr_IO: failed to send io message
Sysimgbase_DiskLib_Write failed with 'NBD_ERR_NETWORK_CONNECT' (error code:2338)

By searching a bit on the above entries, I was pointed towards a relevant KB article from VMware. As it turns out, this is not network related at all, it is a known error in the Converter Standalone (both v4 and v5) software. The KB simply states that VMware is aware of this issue... I've done a ton of P2V's but this error I've never seen before...

The good news is that there is a workaround:

The trick is to only transfer one drive at a time. This means that if the source has a C and a D drive you'll be P2V'ing this machine twice creating to seperate VMs - one only containing the C drive including the system partition and another VM (which I just called 'servername_Ddrive') containing only the D drive. When both P2V's are done the second one is removed from inventory. For the first VM, go to Edit Settings and attach the disk from the second VM, 'servername_Ddrive'. After that, you can boot the VM now containing both drives. Be aware that the newly attached disk will deafult to drive letter D. This means that if it had another drive letter before, you'll have to change it manually.

An important point to mention in this process is that when transferring the second VM only containing the D drive, the transfer will fail with an error around 98% stating something like "An error ocurred during reconfiguration...". This is ok - as long as the drive has been succesfully cloned, this is what matters (see below).

An alternative workaround that will most likely work as well is to do a cold clone.

Below is a screen dump of the releant entries in the log file.

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Disable Folder Options Menu

This setting allows you to hide the Folder Options function from the folder Tools menu. Allowing you to restrict access to numerous advanced folder features.
Navigate the following key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USERS\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer and create Dword value NoFolderOptions give the value 1.

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Enable or Disable task manager

If your computer is infected by virus, you may not run task manager to kill the process that run by the virus. Even if you removed virus by antivus, problems could persist.

Here is how to enable task manager

Firstly, from the Start button click 'run' and type Regedit.
Go to 
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\System


In  DWORD value: DisableTaskMgr
Set the data value to 0 to enable Task Manager.
Set the data value to 0 to disable it.

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