Because of a protocol error detected at the client (code 0×1104), this session will be disconnected. Please try connecting to the remote computer again.
When using remote desktop connection to connect to a server I recently encountered the “Because of a protocol error detected at the client (code 0x1104), this session will be disconnected. Please try connecting to the remote computer again.” error.
The error was encountered after:
- I had just logged into the the server the night before with no issues.
- Able to login to another server and tried to roundtrip to server in question from another server. Still the same error persisted.
- Rebooting of my machine did not change the errors.
How to fix:
In your RDP connection window, expand options if they are already not expanded and then select the Experience tab. Unselect the Themes checkbox (Prior to Windows 7) or Visual Styles checkbox in Windows 7.
Try logging in again. The issue should be cleared.
Note: After one login, I was able to click Visual styles and login normal again.
Application Essentials Installer
If you frequently find yourself installing Windows applications for friends, family that has wrecked their computer or because you’re a frequent Windows Beta tester there is a great tool for you.
Ninite
Simply go to the Ninite site and select from dozens of apps and then click Get Installer and Ninite builds you a Windows installer of all the apps you’ve selected. Much like the simple process of selecting your apps, your installation runs smoothly with little or no prompts.
There are a couple of limitations to the installer – the applications must be on their list and the machine installing must have web access. However, lucky for us the current selection has a large number of applications unlike Google Pack and it’s extremely limited selection.
The current selection of apps includes:
Web Browsers
- Chrome
- Safari
- Opera
- Firefox
Messaging
- Skype
- Messenger
- Pidgin
- Digsby
- Google Talk
- Thunderbird
Media
- iTunes
- Songbird
- Hulu
- VLC
- KMPlayer
- AIMP
- Audacity
- Spotify
Imaging
- Paint.NET
- Picasa
- GIMP
- IrfanView
- XnView
Documents
- Office (Trial)
- OpenOffice
- Adobe Reader
- Foxit Reader
- CutePDF
Anti-Virus
- Essentials
- Avast
- AVG
Runtimes
- Flash
- Flash (IE)
- Java
- .Net
- Silverlight
File Sharing
- uTorrent
- eMule
Other
- Dropbox
- Evernote
- BumpTop
- Steam
- Google Earth
Utilities
- ImgBurn
- CCleaner
- Launchy
- Revo
- Defraggler
- RealVNC
- CDBurnerXP
- Recuva
Compression
- 7-Zip
- WinRAR
Developer Tools
- Python
- FileZilla
- Notepad ++
- JDK
- WinSCP
- PuTTY
- Eclipse
Animated Busy Images (AKA AJAX Busy Spinner)
Have a shiny new Web 2.0 site where you are using just the stock busy / loading graphic (spinner.gif or waiting.gif)? Why not go with a custom look for free.
ajaxload.info is a new site that builds customized animated gifs for you.
Simple as 1-2-3!
- Pick an indicator type from the Web 2.0 style drop down
- Select your colors
- Click Generate
Simple! 1 Site – 1 Page!
Free net monitoring tool gets a makeover
Spiceworks simply put is an IT/Network Managers best friend. Best of all - it is FREE! Building on Spiceworks strong foundation that allows IT Managers to inventory hardware, software, and other devices via WMI the new Beta 3 now allows it's built in Help Desk to operate via LDAP and performs testing of your Exchange server. The review on Network World doesn't do the product much justice because simply put this product is a must have. It easily saves me hours of time and notifies me of any problems that otherwise would have gone undetected. Try it for yourself. I often wonder how I lived without this software before.
Beta 3 - http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/13852
Spiceworks v2.1 - http://www.spiceworks.com/
How To: Firefox and Integrated Windows Authentication
Do you have an Intranet or a similar web site that requires the use of Integrated Windows Authentication? If so the default Firefox browser settings will always prompt you for a username and password first before accessing a site using Integrated Window Authentication.
Fortunately Firefox has the slick ability to easily modify it's configuration to use Integrated Windows Authentication.
How to configure Firefox
- Open Firefox
- In the address bar type: about:config
- Firefox3.x and later requires you to agree that you will proceed with caution.
- After the config page loads, in the filter box type: network.automatic
- * Modify network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris by double clicking the row and enter http://www.replacewithyoursite.com or http://your-intranet-server-name
- * Multiple sites can be added by comma delimiting them such as http://www.replacewithyoursite.com, http://www.replacewithyourintranetsite.com
Package for Large Installs
If you are a network administrator that has a lot of installs to do, you can modify the Firefox installer.
- Use a tool such as 7-zip to extract Firefox Setup 2.x.x.exe
- Extract browser.xpi from the setup
- Edit all.js contained in browser.xpi contained in binjreprefs
- Modify the entries as in items 4 and 5 above
- Re-package browser.xpi and use the extracted setup to install Firefox
* Special Notes
To specify all subdomains use .replacewithyoursite.com instead of www.replacewithyoursite.com, help.replacewithyoursite.com, pictures.replacewithyoursite.com
Updated March 5, 2010
Scientific Web Design: 23 Actionable Lessons from Eye-Tracking Studies
Eye-tracking studies are hot in the web design world, but it can be hard to figure out how to translate the results of these studies into real design implementations. These are a few tips from eye-tracking studies that you can use to improve the design of your blog or site.
Windows Live Writer and Integrated authentication – Community Server
Recently Microsoft released Windows Live Writer, a blog authoring tool from its BETA hell to, well, Live. The tool has a lot of promise and is a vast improvement over the default editor in Community Server.
If you are a corporate user of this software that uses Community Servers integrated login module, you were out of luck, sort of until I discovered a forum post by Telligent employee Kevin Harder.
Windows Live Writer and Integrated authentication - Community Server
Windows Live Writer does not natively support integrated logins at this point and requires a username and password to setup a Community Server Weblog account. To do this you need to perform one of the following workarounds.
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