February 23rd, 2010 admin
This happens fairly regularly at a client site with a mixture of XP and Vista PCs. It’s common for users to remote from an XP machine to a Vista machine, only to find that when they return to the Vista machine, the screen is blank (black) and there’s no way to bring it back to life without switching it off and rebooting.
Believe it or not, it appears that the problem is related to smart card authentication (which isn’t even used on the site). On the machine establishing the connection – go into the remote desktop properties, under the Local Resources tab, press the More button. If you deselect “Smart Cards” – the problem is fixed
There is a long discussion of the problem with other possible solutions over at asp.net if the above fix doesn’t work for you.
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February 23rd, 2010 admin
I’ve seen this a couple of times now with Vista, and thankfully it’s a fairly straightforward fix:
Log on as another user with Administrative rights.
Start regedit and go to the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
Here you’ll see a list of SIDs for each user profile, and you should find there are two with the same SID, however one ends with “.bak”. You need to swap these around – essentially restoring the backup SID.
Once swapped – set both State and Refcount to 0 and then reboot. Fingers crossed, everything should be back to normal!
For a good step through of the process – take a look at this walkthrough.
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February 23rd, 2010 admin
OK, so the results are in for the 1st part of this experiment – now for the second stage.
This time, I’m submitting a PDF file to google to see what gets indexed and how quickly.
Here’s the PDF File
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