Vista - Reboot a Remote Desktop connection in Windows Virtual PC

I work from home every day, and VPN/Remote Desktop to machines at the
office. I run XP in a VM at home, and use that for my work and for the VPN
/Remote Desktop connection.

When using VPC 2007 under Vista, I can reboot a remote computer at the
office by hitting CTRL-ALT-END. This brings up the "Lock Computer, Log Off,
Shutdown..." window on the Remote computer. I then choose Shutdown and
Restart, and the remote computer reboots.

However, when using Windows Virtual PC beta under Windows 7, pressing
CTRL-ALT-END brings up the "Lock Computer, Log Off, Shutdown..." window on
the local XP VM, not on the remote computer! I have all of the keyboard
settings to send Windows key combinations to the Remote Computer. ALT-TAB
for example, goes thru to the remote computer, but CTRL-ALT-END does not.
The "Integration Features" are disabled, since I get better video response
this way.

So I have no way to reboot the remote computer. Is this a known issue, or
is there a new key combination I need to press to reboot the remote
computer?

On Tue, 5 May 2009 18:27:37 -0400, "Bob Campbell" <bob@xxxxxx> wrote:
Yeah, VPC7 seems to be using the same kbd shortcuts as RDP.

You could just create a batch file for "shutdown /r /t 00" on your
desktop as a work-around.

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"Steve Jain [MVP]" <noreply.-@-.essjae.com> wrote in message
news:6ng105de7alh3j7nhuj32i5vs6af0v6mof@xxxxxxI knew there was shutdown command, but I was unsure of the syntax and help
was NO help at all. I did a Yahoo search and found it. It works fine.

Thanks.

You can also use the shutdown item from the guest's Start menu. I don't
remember the menu item name, but it's near the bottom-right corner of the
2-column Start menu, both in Vista and in XP. In XP it's somewhat
confusingly labeled Windows Security, or something like that. It gives the
standard choices for Shutdown or Restart.

<Ctrl><Alt><Del> has always been trapped by the host, since that was the
"secure" way to know you were actually talking to your own computer. It
started with DOS, where that key combination was a (mostly) reliable reboot
sequence.

"Bob Campbell" <bob@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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If you had typed "shutdown /?" in a command prompt, you would have seen a
list of the various parameters you can use with the shutdown command.

"Bob Campbell" <bob@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Paul Shapiro" <paul@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:ecHpx3fzJHA.1196@xxxxxxYou clearly did not read my post. I am not talking about shutting down a
guest. I am talking about shutting down a Remote Desktop connection from a
guest. You used to used CTRL-ALT-END, not CTRL-ALT-DEL.

Sorry, I wrote it poorly. But what I described works fine for a Remote
Desktop connection as well, regardless of whether the RD host is your
computer or a VM guest. Any system's start menu has the necessary shutdown
items, but they're not as obvious to find in either a guest or a remote
desktop or a guest's remote desktop as on your own computer.

"Bob Campbell" <bob@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Bob Campbell wrote:So put another way, the real issue is this:

Windows 7 Virtual PC maps a Ctrl+Alt+End on the Host hardware PC to a
Ctrl+Alt+Del on the Guest virtual PC. A (Microsoft) program running on
that virtual PC has a feature which requires the user to press
Ctrl+Alt+End on the virtual PC.

So the problem is:
1. Is there a way to tell Win7VPC to send a Ctrl+Alt+End keystroke to
the virtual keyboard of Guest PC? This might be a different keystroke,
or a special key to press before Ctrl+Alt+End or a Win7VPC menu item or ...

2. Is there a way to tell Win7VPC to not map Ctrl+Alt+End to
Ctrl+Alt+Del, thus allowing Ctrl+Alt+End to go directly to the Guest PC
where it can be used by applications (such as the RDP client)?

On a fundamental logic level the issue is this: A Real PC keyboard has
a certain number N of possible keystroke combinations. The Virtual PC
keyboard in a VPC should be capable of simulating all N of them. Some
keystrokes (lets say 2) need to be reserved for talking to the VPC
environment itself (for instance Ctrl+Alt+Del is reserved to always pop
up the security dialog on the physical PC). So the designers of the VPC
mechanism need to implement a way to map from N-2 non-reserved real
keystrokes to N virtual keystrokes, and they need to document this
mapping to the user.


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