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My newest laptop is a Vista machine. I don’t have a lot of experience with Vista, but so far I generally like it. I think part of the key is just having the stats to run it and all the proper drivers. My last try at Vista failed, essentially because I couldn’t get all the drivers that I needed.

I have run into one major annoyance though: This goofy warning whenever I connect to a machine via Remote Desktop — something I do many times a day.

Love that first line, “the remote computer is running a version of Windows that is earlier than Windows Vista.” Gee, since Vista is the newest shipping Windows OS, how startling is that?

I use Remote Desktop a lot and this extra click each time is annoying. Fortunately, it is easily fixed with just a few clicks.

First, after launching the Remote Desktop Connection program, click on “Options >>” and then jump to the Advanced tab.

Change the Authentication options to “Always connect, even if authentication fails.”

Now pop back to the General tab and click Save. If prompted for a name, go with Default.

Done.

Granted, I’ll be sure to revisit this setting after I’ve migrated to Windows Server 2008 (or whatever it’ll be called), but that’s a long time down the road.

Side Note: Notice that we saved the setting to “Default”. While poking around the options, feel free to make other changes that you want to apply to all Remote Desktop sessions as well. For instance, on the Local Resources tab, I uncheck all the Local Devices and Resources except for Clipboard.

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