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Remote Desktop does not log off the current user. When you login with remote desktop, if you login as a user already logged in, it will bring up all the windows/apps that that user already has running. When you are finished you select the disconnect option (not the logoff option) and the user remains logged in, in whatever state you left the PC at disconnect.

I have a dual boot pc with XP64 and XP 32bit The XP 32bit is stable but the XP64 is producing mini dumps when I hammer the machine. I am processing lots of graphics files in photoshop and paintshop pro in batches that can take hours to run. (obviously it is quicker in 64bit which I why I tried it out) However in XP64 I find that after I have setup the batch job to run and come back later to check the job I am finding that occassionally the PC has rebooted and a mini dump has occured. The mini dump error imples a memory conflict. It is happening infrequently but only when intensive disk and CPU work is happening. I was concerned by other posts that implied the nforce chipset for xp64 had problems with IDE drivers and considered removing them however I first decided it would be easier to minimise what processes were running on the xp64 system. The only non XP64 operating system process that I had running was Symantic anti-virus so I uninstalled it. For 2 weeks now I have not had a mini dump. This seems to imply that the anti virus service is the culprit although I guess there maybe some conflig with the nforce ide driver (note I have both SATA and IDE drives on the machine and the graphics files are being written to the SATA drive) Is anyone else having problems with Symantic anti-virus 10 for xp64 and getting occasional mini dumps?

I installed Windows 2003 SP1 on my server. Prior to the install the server had been up and running for months with no problems and I never had any problems with any of the windows updates before. The SP1 installation appeared to work fine. It gave no errors and the PC rebooted. I ran the security configuration wizard and accepted most of the screens with the recommended options. I did not use the windows firewall since I have a third party firewall on my server. However now my server has become unstable. If I use IE or explorer for more than about 10 minutes, these 2 applications lock up. They work fine when first started but suddenly don't respond anymore. I can use other apps when these have hung, but if I kill either of the above and restart them the whole machine just hangs and requires a cold boot to get it up again. There are no event log errors or any errors that I can find reported (IE: third party firewall). I disabled the firewall just in case this was causing the server to hang but I still found the server hung without this running. My guess is that something has screwed the network somehow and it is this that is hanging my machine. However it is very difficult to identify the problem when the machine works fine over the network for the first 10 minutes or so. I noticed that SP1 does add several new items to the network. I tried disabling these as well but the server still hung. I tried uninstalling SP1 and the first time it hung. I tried a second time and luckily it uninstalled. The server is again working flawlessly with no hanging and no changes to it aftre the uninstall. Any ideas what I should look for if I try and install SP1 again.