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May 22, 2004

Change the Remote Desktop Listener Port

For my future reference, to change the port that Remote Desktop listens to, follow the instructions listed here.

To change the default port for all new connections created on the Terminal Server:

  • Run Regedit and go to this key:
    HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\WinStations\RDP-Tcp

  • Find the "PortNumber" subkey and notice the value of 00000D3D, hex for (3389). Modify the port number in Hex and save the new value.

    Now to figure out how to connect to an alternate port via the Remote Desktops MMC interface instead of that horrid little Remote Desktop Client that ships with XP.

  • May 20, 2004

    More MSH (Monad) Information Publicly Available

    If you want more information about the new Windows Command Shell (MSH aka Monad) check out this PowerPoint deck from the recent WinHEC conference. The following instructions are inside for signing up for the beta if you're interested.

  • Available on http://betaplace.com
  • Use the guest account: mshPDC
  • Logon and password e-mailed within 24 hours
  • Download bits, SDK, samples, private newsgroup, and a feedback/bug reporting environment

    If you've come from a unix background and find yourself installing Cygwin to cope with Microsoft's anemic command line, you should do yourself a favour and check it out.

  • May 19, 2004

    Upgrade Subversion - Security Issue

    If you're using Subversion - especially if you're hosting a publicly accessible repository - go download 1.0.3 immediately.

    Subversion versions up to and including 1.0.2 have a buffer overflow in the date parsing code. All users are advised to upgrade to 1.0.3.

    May 17, 2004

    Lookout Rocks

    What he said...

    May 16, 2004

    MT 3.0 Upgrade

    I bit the bullet and upgraded to the free version of MovableType 3.0 today. I was stalled for quite a while until I finally got things moving by re-uploading all the perl modules (.pm files) in ASCII mode. I guess there was something funky going on when moving from Windows to unix. Oh, and make sure you disable MT-Blacklist.

    Christopher, if you're thinking of doing an upgrade, check with me first . :)

    May 06, 2004

    Notepad2 in Context Menu

    Everyone is talking about Notepad2. I'll chime in and say that I've become an overnight fan as well.

    I like how TextPad adds itself to the explorer context menu, so last night I took a few minutes to figure out how to add Notepad2 to the context menu. Here's my registry snippet. Download this file, edit it to point to the location of your Notepad2.exe, and and double-click it to add it to your registry. Standard disclaimers apply... It's not my fault if this bit of code hoses your system - all I can say is it didn't hose mine. :)

    Here's what it adds to your registry:

    If anyone knows of a better way to do this, please let me know in comments below.

    May 02, 2004

    Help! Can't open any VS.NET projects!

    I've tried everything.. repaired my VS.NET install, uninstalled, reinstalled, removed every plugin, it still gives the same message every time I open a C# project:

    ---------------------------
    Microsoft Development Environment
    ---------------------------
    The application for project 'C:\Source\SharePointFav_trunk\ClassLibrary\SharePointFav.ClassLibrary.csproj' is not installed.

    Make sure the application for the project type (.csproj) is installed.
    ---------------------------
    OK
    ---------------------------


    I've Googled extensively and in every case that I found a workable solution the reason for the error was that the user hadn't installed C# on the Visual Studio install. I definitely have C# installed here.

    I installed AnkhSVN 0.4.1 just before I started receiving this error. Uninstalling AnkhSVN didn't solve the problem.

    Please, if anyone has any information that can help me, leave a comment below or email me (steve@infotechcanada.com).