DancingOak

I think I may have discovered the culprit. I removed McAfee Security
Center/Antivirus. It was a trial anyway. There seam to be pauses in the
action but they're not as long. I'll follow up if I prematurely stated the
fix. I'll try to find a lighter-weight virus software that plays nicer with
Vista.

"Gloria Boyer [MSFT]" wrote:

> Hi DancingOak. First, a question:
>
> What applications and how many of them are you running when this happens?
>
> One possibility to try is to disable IPv6. We'll know more when we get the
> answer to the above question. Thanks!
>
> Gloria
>
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> Gloria Boyer
> Windows User Assistance
> Microsoft Corporation
>
>
> "DancingOak" <DancingOak@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:3EB3FFEA-0E38-4069-A333-4DE34D3483C0@microsoft.com...
> >I purchased Vista Ultimate with my new Toshiba laptop. I am finding that
> > Window's Vista's Remote Desktop seams to have a compatibility problem with
> > earlier OS. I want to be able to take remote control of my work machine,
> > which is Windows XP Professional. When I do, it works OK for a while and
> > then
> > freezes anywhere between 10 and 30 seconds - after which, it resumes. If I
> > was in the middle of typing something, a few extra characters before I
> > realized, the letters will not be lost. But this can be frustrating when
> > clicking on a different part of the screen. If I click elsewhere and wait
> > for
> > the pause to finish, the cursor will go to the new location after the
> > freeze/delay is over with.
> >
> > I have isolated it to Vista's Remote Desktop. I have another older laptop
> > which has XP Professional and it works fine. On the Vista laptop, I tried
> > both wireless and ethernet. I also tried to take remote control of an XP
> > Pro
> > desktop that was within my home network (workgroup) - essentially taking
> > the
> > VPN out of the equation.
> >
> > There is a message that pops up when I first take remote control -
> > something
> > to do with the earlier operating system. I will follow up with the exact
> > text. I am really hoping this can work though. My other option, when
> > drivers
> > become available, is to revert back to XP Pro on the new laptop - not
> > desirable.
>
>
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