Grinn Blog: Console Session and Remote Desktop Issue with SP3

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Console Session and Remote Desktop Issue with SP3

If you've recently installed Service Pack 3 for Windows XP and noticed that the Remote Desktop MMC snap-in no longer continues your currently logged-in session, it's because SP3 hosed it. You can read all about it in the links below, but the fast track fix is to revert four files in your windows\system32 folder from your old SP2 install:

mstsc.exe
mstscax.dll
mstsmhst.dll
mstsmmc.dll

If you didn't backup before installing SP3... Shame on you. Now that we got that out of the way, I zipped up these files from my system before installing SP3, and you can feel free to download them here if you're feeling lucky. For all I know replacing files on your system with ones from mine could completely hose your junk, so install at your own risk and for Christ's sake BACK UP THE FILES FIRST!

Console session and Remote Desktop issue - TechNet Forums [via]

Labels: Tips, Windows

2 Comments:

At 7/20/08 11:38 AM, Seph de Montreal said...: worked for me, except I had to simply run Remote by executing your downloaded files from a folder I left alone in My Docs.
These are the 4 files needed to run RDP on its own. With my sp3 install, the files in sys32 get overwritten with the sp3 versions and you get the expired error.
Answer is to extract these four files to a folder and run the mstsc.exe alone from there without needing to update the sys32 files at all.

THANKS!
At 8/12/08 5:40 AM, Oliver said...: Works great!!!

Thank you so much.

Oliver.