I have a Windows application that exports to Excel using the Excel Object Module (programming module). It has worked fine on all Winodws versions except Windows Server 2008. It takes about 2 seconds to do anything in Excel, making the process take minutes or even hours to complete what normally takes a few seconds.
This happens when using Terminal Services or RemoteApp. I discovered that it only happens when you check the Printers checkbox under Local Resources when connecting via Remote Desktop. If you uncheck it the speed is normal.
However, I need my printers, so I can't just uncheck it.
Any ideas what is causing the slow down?
The MS Office apps do a lot of calculation in the background based on the default printer. When you connect from a remote Terminal Services session and import the Printers from your Local Resources, the Terminal Server really needs to have an appropriate driver for each printer you're connecting.
Thus, one solution to the speed issue would be to ensure that the server has the right drivers (and that they work as expected).
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Hello I am going to use Azure Windows B1S instance. I have excel with macro which gets live values from web. Once I connected vm through Remote Desktop, and start excel and close. will excel run through without problem if I am closing Remote Desktop? and also will my excel connected to internet to get live values if I disconnected VM from my local pc?
thanks
If your application is a process, yes. After the window is closed, it will be continued and where it is connected when maintaining the previous state of the vm. Activate a pop-up that appears before closing that asks if you just want to close a window or suspend a vm. Select only to close.
I'm having a bizarre problem with some virtual servers created to record podcasts. They run on amazon AWS as windows server 2012 instances and a small c# app tells FFMPEG to do the heavy lifting of capturing from the virtual screen and reading from the virtual sound card (Virtual Audio Cable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Audio_Cable) via DirectShow filters
The problem I have is if I leave the machine to do its stuff unattended, the recordings are sometimes silent. If I log in via VNC and watch it doing its stuff the audio is recorded just fine. All other aspects of the test op are the same, and the virtual machine is shut down between successive recordings so each one should theoretically be a clean slate. The app runs under a logged in session (hence the use of VNC rather than RDP)
I'm now wondering if there is some optimisation of the windows sound engine whereby it doesn't bother playing audio if it thinks noone is listening. The confusing thing to me is that not every virtual machine suffers these problems; some of them record fine (and they're all created from the same seed virtual hard disk image) in unattended mode
I'm asking this question with the aim of getting together a list of things I can check/look into/debug.. I don't have much knowledge of how MME/DirectSound/WASAPI work internally...
We've created a Windows 10 application that runs on tablets in Windows 10 kiosk mode. It works just fine, however, the wifi connection gets lost sometimes since the locations are very remote. We tried fixing the issue from the networking side, but when the devices lose and regain internet access the application will still hang as if it doesn't have internet access displaying a blank page. Where these devices are used, they are bolted into the wall to prevent theft. Which means if we want to reboot its very time consuming as we have to unscrew the cases off the wall and then open the cases to gain access to the power button, and the only way to get the application to run successfully again is to do a reboot on the device.
It was suggested that we have a way to perform a reboot from the application, however, every code example I've tried doesn't work in Windows 10 UWP. Here is the most common one I've found:
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("restart", "/r");
I have access to the namespace
System.Diagnostics
but the Process class does not exist. Anyone have suggestions on rebooting via code on Win 10 UWP? Or a better solution to our issue? Thanks in advance.
It's also worth mentioning I tried execute a Powershell command too and the dll I need to reference for the Powershell class is not compatible with UWP.
What you require is not possible with the APIs available to UWP apps. This was a security decision. An app distributed through the store shouldn't be able to do things like restart machines.
Based on your scenario though you shouldn't need to go through the store. This means that you could PInvoke native code to do whatever you want. This would still need to be initiated on the actual device.
Yes you can do that!
You should add IoT System Administration in App capability declarations:
<Capabilities><iot:Capability Name="systemManagement"/></Capabilities>
and also You need to have "Windows IoT Extension for UWP" added to your project
using this for Shutdown
Windows.System.ShutdownManager.BeginShutdown(Windows.System.ShutdownKind.Shutdown, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1)); //Delay is not relevant to shutdown
or for Restart
Windows.System.ShutdownManager.BeginShutdown(Windows.System.ShutdownKind.Restart, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1)); //Delay before restart after shutdown
You can get more information in this Link
I'm using my Raspberry Pi 2 Model B as a small and super simple LAMP development server. However it is on the edge of acceptable performance, especially when it comes to bulk copying or handling large MySQL databases.
The set-up:
The Pi has no display attached
I access the device via SSH and WinSCP
I changed the GUI boot behavior via raspi-config to command line only
What makes me curious is that whenever I connect to the Pi via the Windows Remote Control tool I still get a GUI.
Therefore I'm wondering whether if there are any negative performance implications or if Raspbian does not load the GUI until explicitly requested from the remote control tool.
If there are negative implications, what configurations should I change? (PS: I like to have a GUI from time to time but I could do without it.)
Unless the RPi is very starved of memory, there will be no performance difference as long as the graphical interface isn't actively being used.
Having said that, I would not try to run a large database on it unless I was using a class 10 card or better and the database configuration was heavily tuned.
We have Eclipse setup as our IDE on a central Linux server. Everyone will connect to the server, opens an Eclipse instance, work on it.
Eclipse will be run as a background process, showing the GUI to the user.
What happens is, sometimes people disconnect from the SSH session abruptly(making the laptop to sleep ..etc), without properly closing eclipse, which sometimes leaves the Eclipse process running in the background.
Whenever the user tries to connect next time, they are unaware of the existing Eclipse sessions, and continue starting a new one, while the existing Eclipse processes continue running in the background taking up all the resources.
Question is, can we re-connect to that abandoned Eclipse session somehow? Is it possible to bring up the Eclipse in the same state where user left it?
I looked at GNU screen . However, it can't bring the GUI application back to the user.
This seems to be a problematic setup to me. Why not work on the local computer in the first place? But if you want (or have to) to work on the server, better start the desktop directly on the server via XDMCP, VNC, or Citrix XenAPP (commercial).
EDIT: Just found this article about xmove. I haven't heard about it before, but maybe it works.