Remote Desktop Access AMMY ADMIN

"You can easily share a remote desktop or control a server over the Internet with Ammyy Admin. No matter where you are, Ammyy Admin makes it safe and easy to quickly access a remote desktop within a few seconds."

Doesn't require installation or admin rights.

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Services in Windows 7 that can be Safely set Manual

In order to fully optimize you system, you can safely set Manual\Disable some services in Windows:

In the search bar run the follow: services.msc

1. Application Experience
2. Computer Browser (If your PC does not connect to any network)
3. Desktop Window Manager Session Manager (If you don’t want the aero effects)
4. Diagnostic Policy Service
5. Distributed Link Tracking Client
6. IP Helper
7. Offline Files
8. Portable Device Enumerator Service
9. Print Spooler (If you do not use Printer)
10. Protected Storage
11. Remote Registry (You can safely disable it for more Security)
12. Secondary Logon
13. Security Center
14. Server (If your computer do not connect with any network)
15. Tablet PC Input Service
16. TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper
17. Themes ( If you want any aero and good visual appearence (classic theme will be applied))
18. Windows Error Reporting Service
19. Windows Media Center Service Launcher
20. Windows Search (If you rarely use Windows Search feature )
21. Windows Time (If you do not want to synchronize system time with internet time automatically)

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Aptana Studio 3

"Aptana Studio 3.0.9 is our code base and complete environment that includes extensive capabilities to build Ruby and Rails, PHP, and Python applications, along with complete HTML, CSS and JavaScript editing."

And it´s free!!!

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Royal TS - Remote Desktop Client

In my opinion, is one of the greatest Remote Desktop Connection Managers:

The free version:

"Royal TS can be downloaded, installed and used for free without any time limit (no trial expiration!) and without a license key. In this mode, the following restrictions are applied:

• You cannot have more than 10 connections per Royal TS application instance.
• You can open only one Royal TS document per application instance.

Also note, that the all the features of Royal TS can be used without a license key. There are no other restrictions applied. To remove the above restrictions, it's required to obtain and enter a license key in Royal TS. Go to the Buy page for pricing and licensing options."

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Updating definitions for Security Essentials through proxy server

Open the command line and run the follow command:

For Windows XP: proxycfg -p <proxyip:proxyport> or import settings from Internet Explorer: proxycfg -u

For Windows 7: netsh winhttp set proxy <proxyip:proxyport> or import settings from Internet Explorer: netsh winhttp import proxy source=ie

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Configuring Windows Server 2008 R2 Core

In order to configure a fresh install of Windows 2008 R2 Core version we can use the built-in tool called sconfig

1. In the command line just write sconfig

With this tool you can do several tasks:

• Join domain
• Rename Server
• Configure Remote Settings
• Configure Windows Update 
• Enabling Remote Desktop
• Configuring Networking
  
  
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Activating Windows Server 2008 R2 Core Edition

In the command line, paste the next command:  slmgr.vbs -ipk XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX

(Where XXXXX is your Key)

Activating your Key: slmgr.vbs -ato

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