Filepro-list Digest, Vol 20, Issue 33

[Brian K. White]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jay" <kandoit at msn.com>
To: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2005 6:53 AM
Subject: RE: Filepro-list Digest, Vol 20, Issue 33


>>> John Esak <john at valar.com> wrote:
>>> "Can you tell me more about disabling some of the graphic
>>> overhead you mention above. Where is this stuff, and what
>>> are some of the names of the items to disable.  I am curious
>>> to learn as much about RDP as I can."
>
> Sure John.  When you open RDP, normally rush to get to where they need to
> go; sometimes, it's nice to have a look around before taking that leap 
> onto
> the info superhighway.
> Click "OPTIONS" and you're presented with 5 tabs: General, Display, Local
> Resources, Programs & Experience.
>
> Choosing GENERAL allows you to customize the RDP connection's login
> settings, so that you can save the connection to easily get to a specific
> destination.  I use it frequently and save the settings to a folder on my
> desktop.
>
> DISPLAY allows you to reduce or increase the depth of the color palette, 
> as
> well as the size of the remote desktop
>
> LOCAL RESOURCES gives you the option of hearing sounds created from the
> remote machine, effects of using Windows shortcuts (i.e. CTRL-C to copy &
> CTRL-V to paste).  What is nice about this feature is you can copy from 
> the
> remote & paste it on the local machine.  Other options allow you to bring
> your printers, disk drives & serial ports with you when connecting.  I 
> don't
> use this part too much, but I'm sure that I'm under-utilizing it.
>
> PROGRAMS gives you the ability to auto-launch an application on the remote
> machine upon logging in.  For the average, less saavy user, this allows
> administrators to give someone this shortcut (which can be emailed) with 
> the
> application setup to auto-launch.  Basically, it applies the KISS 
> principle
> (Keep It Simple Stupid).
>
> EXPERIENCE is where all the options for turning off items such as Bitmap
> Caching, Desktop Themes & Backgrounds and Animation.  You can also use the
> dropdown box to allow RDP to pre-determine which settings to enable &
> disable.  The best response time is to choose the slowest connection type
> from the dropdown box, as it only enables bitmap caching.
>
> Enjoy your new experiences with RDP.
>
> Jay Kantrowitz

Also John, You can save .rdp files that are plain text connection config 
files just like facetwin .fwt files.
And just like .fwt files, you can place them anywhere, in an email, on the 
desktop, in a web page, generated dynamically from a cgi, and when you click 
on them, (or "run" them with a facetwin/anzio escape sequence, not that I 
can think of a use for that particular scenario) bam you are in.

All that applies to .vnc files too, if you use TightVNC. But vnc has no 
features other than extreme portability. You can use a java capable web 
browser for the client, or a palm or pocketpc pda, or any of the actual 
platforms. But it's just a big bitmap with not even any of the goodies 
pcanywhere has for printing and file transfer.

Brian K. White  --  brian at aljex.com  --  http://www.aljex.com/bkw/
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