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  • Monday, April 07, 2008 7:08 PMpsreece Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    I have the HP Home Server and it has worked fine for two months. Now when I click on the Home Server Icon next to the clock the login window opens. I put in my password and I'm getting a message "The Pre-Release Version of Remote Desktop Connection has expired. To download the full version of Remote Desktop Connection, Go to Windows update or  contact your system administrator". I dowloaded the remote desktop connection from Microsoft and tried to indstall it and it said that the full version is alread on my computer. I tried to re-install HP Home Server software and I still get the same message. Can someone help me?
     

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  • Monday, April 07, 2008 7:36 PMkariya21MVP, ModeratorUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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     psreece wrote:
    I have the HP Home Server and it has worked fine for two months. Now when I click on the Home Server Icon next to the clock the login window opens. I put in my password and I'm getting a message "The Pre-Release Version of Remote Desktop Connection has expired. To download the full version of Remote Desktop Connection, Go to Windows update or  contact your system administrator". I dowloaded the remote desktop connection from Microsoft and tried to indstall it and it said that the full version is alread on my computer. I tried to re-install HP Home Server software and I still get the same message. Can someone help me?

     

    If you are using a beta version of XP SP3, check here for suggestions...

     
  • Monday, April 07, 2008 7:40 PMAl JarviMVPUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
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    Are you running XP SP3 Beta?

     

    There is a long ongoing thread about this on the BBR Microsoft forum that you may be interested in...

     

    http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20293958-XP-Pro-Remote-desktop-connection-software-has-expired

     

    Read the entire thread...

     
  • Thursday, April 24, 2008 2:36 AMStu Pidaso Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    Not to be a post hog but I started that thread on BBR Smile Stick out tongue
     
  • Monday, May 12, 2008 8:53 AMwombat060152 Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    I had the same problem... time limited version of RDC (from early release of  XP SP3, I think.) The information on the BBS is more or less correct: grab c:\windows\system32\mstsc.exe & mstscax.dll from the latest possible XP SP2 release. That was not enough, however. I had to replace the corresponding files in c:\windows\system32\en-us\... these are: mstsc.exe.mui & mstscax.dll.mui . Mine were dated Nov '06, taken from my wife's laptop & simply copied into place. I tried just the first two (system32) files & that did not work, then copied the similarly dated \en-us\ pair & all was fine. I suppose that the .mui files from a different language installation would be required to match whichever language is running on a particular machine. All are smaller than the SP3 versions. So look for somone with a well maintained XP SP2 machine.