Remove Desktop Wallpaper From RDP Login Screen

On some systems even when you check to not use the remote desktop wallpaper you still have to wait for the wallpaper to load at the login screen.  If you are comfortable editing the registry of the machine you can quickly fix this issue by setting the following value to NULL or Empty.
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop
Removing this [...]

Send CTRL + ALT + DEL to a Remote Desktop

 If you use remote desktop at all you’ve probably ran into the need to send ctrl + alt + del to the remote system.  The problem is when you press those keys it causes the action to occur on your local machine.  My current solutions for you are the following
CTRL + ALT + END
This should [...]

Message from Microsoft

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Regain 20% of your bandwidth

Limit reservable bandwidth
Determines the percentage of connection bandwidth that the system can reserve. This value limits the combined bandwidth reservations of all programs running on the system. By default, the Packet Scheduler limits the system to 20% of the bandwidth of a connection, but you can use the setting to override the default.
Here is how [...]

Microsoft PowerToys for XP

So I stumbled across a central location for some of Microsoft’s PowerToys for Windows XP. I had already tried out of couple of them, like SyncToy and the Slide Show Wizard, but there were a couple of others that caught my eye. Right away I started downloading… ClearType Tuner, Alt-Tab replacement, Tweak UI, Image [...]