wuttuptae

I'm looking for a way to connect to the console session on my Windows Server 2003 machine and disconnect from the session without locking (CTRL-ALT-DEL login) the session. Is this possible? The reason is I use my Windows Server 2003 machine as also my "Media Center" ... so I usually have music playing with visuals going on that are displayed on my TV. I like using my laptop to remote connect to the server and change playlists, etc.. but when I disconnect from the console session, it locks the session so that I now have to unlock the session from the local keyboard. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

I just followed your steps with success. Thanks! Maybe I can explain what I did a little more clearly for others: For wmfdist11.exe, I extracted the contents to its own folder using WinRAR and created the following batch file (named updater.bat) inside the /update folder. @echo off ren wmfdist11.cat wmfdist11.catbak copy Mupdate.inf update.inf /y pause start update.exe pause copy Cupdate.inf update.inf /y ren wmfdist11.catbak wmfdist11.cat For wmp11.exe, I extracted the contents to its own folder using WinRAR and created the following batch file inside the /update folder. @echo off ren wmp11.cat wmp11.catbak copy Mupdate.inf update.inf /y pause start update.exe pause copy Cupdate.inf update.inf /y ren wmp11.catbak wmp11.cat In each of the /update folders, I made two copies of the update.inf file -- Mupdate.inf and Cupdate.inf. I changed the following section in each Mupdate.inf file: Original Mupdate.inf: MaxNtMinorVersionToUpdate=1 MaxNtMajorVersionToUpdate=5 NtBuildToUpdate=2600 NtMinorVersionToUpdate=1 NtMajorVersionToUpdate=5 MaxNtBuildToUpdate=2600 MinNtServicePackVersion=512 MaxNtServicePackVersion=2304 Replaced with the following: MaxNtMinorVersionToUpdate=2 MaxNtMajorVersionToUpdate=5 NtBuildToUpdate=3790 NtMinorVersionToUpdate=2 NtMajorVersionToUpdate=5 MaxNtBuildToUpdate=3790 MinNtServicePackVersion=0 MaxNtServicePackVersion=2304 Not sure if I should have done this, but I installed all the executable packages (umdf.exe, WindowsXP-MSCompPackV1-x86.exe, and wmdbexport.exe) except for wmpappcompat.exe. I accomplished this by just running them in compatibility mode (Windows XP). wmpappcompat.exe seemed like it was specific to XP SP2, so I skipped it. Again, not sure if any of this was necessary. Now I ran my updater.bat file for wmfdist11 first. Basically, the script renames the security catalog and copies the Mupdate.inf to update.inf. Press a key inside the batch file window, and the Windows installer should pop up. Before continuing with the installation, press a key inside the batch file again to revert update.inf and the security catalog back to its original state. You can now click Next and install properly. Do the same for the wmp11 package as well. Tae