I am working on a Compaq Presario running WinXP Media Center Edition Version 2002, SP2. The person using this PC needs to access our Windows 2003 Server. User will launch a VPN connection and then use windows RDC to connect to server by name, or if that's not possible, by IP. On this person's computer when I launch the Remote Desktop Connection app. (via shortcut or C:\Windows\system32\mstsc.
exe) I am prompted for username and password as usual. When credentials are entered, however, the login window disappears and then nothing happens. Mstsc.exe shows as a running process for the local user in Task Manager, but no Remote Desktop window. I have downloaded and installed Remote Desktop Connection (Terminal Services Client 6.0) for Windows XP (KB925876) directly from Microsoft. The Mstsc.exe version is 6.0.6000.16386. FYI, installing SP3 to this machine was not successful even after ensuring all drivers were updated correctly. I was hoping that might fix the issue, but had to roll back SP3. Ideas?
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