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How to Reset Terminal license on Windows 2008, 2008 R2 and 2012

The RD Licensing grace period has expired and the service has not registered with a license server with installed licenses. A RD Licensing server is required for continuous operation. A Remote Desktop Session Host server can operate without a license server for 120 days after initial start up. The official solution is to Activate the RDS/TS CAL License server and point the Server to License server with User/Device License and will be resolve the problem, but if you want to reset the timer and again avail the 120 days grace time here is the solution: Solution: 1) First open the registry editor with "regedit" command in command prompt. 2)open the registry key from below path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Control \ Terminal Server \ RCM \ GracePeriod 3)From GracePeriod delete the key " REG_BINARY".don't delete default registry. 4)then Restart the computer and check the grace period with "tlsbln" command from command ...

Windows 7 desktop icons all appear as Word icon

Go to start menu. Run command regedit in run command. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\explorer\filexts\ Search for . lnk ext. Delete whole .lnk key or delete the userchioce key on that. Just restart.

how many days i got left in my trial for Remote Desktop Services in windows server

Open the command prompt and write the command  "tlsbln" and press enter then you will be seen the pop up window of how many days remaining of trial for remote desktop services at the bottom right corner. 

Cannot open the Outlook window. Invalid XML, the view cannot be loaded

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After launching Outlook 2007 or 2010, you receive the following error message: "Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window. Invalid XML, the view cannot be loaded." Solution To fix this error, run the following command from the Run box or click start and type below command in windows 7. Outlook.exe /ResetNavPane   What does Outlook.exe /ResetNavPane do? It clears and regenerates the Navigation Pane for the current profile. Basically, it removes all shortcuts and favorite folders from the Navigation Pane. Not a big deal, as most users leave the default favorite folders in place, but just something to consider.

How to Fix Windows OS temporary user profile load while user loging

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1) Before do anything, restart the computer 2 or 3 times to see whether it’s going back to your old correct profile. Go to next step if this doesn’t work. 2)  open command prompt with run as administrator and type command 'regedit' and press enter.      then navigate the following location. you will see similar keys under profile list, but one with . bak , as shown below. then just remove both profile and restart the system. after restarting you will log in with new user profile. to see your old user profile data go to 'c:\users\' under this folder you will find your old user profile where you can see your old data like desktop and documents folder.just copy your old data in your new user profile.

how to prevent access to local drives of server 2008 for remote desktop users.

By default remote desktop user can access local drive of server. user can create folder on drive. user uses unlimited space of storage. For security purpose it is not safe. Using group policy  we create policy to prevent access to local drives. Follow the below step to prevent access to local drives of server 2008 for remote desktop users. if you created active directory server then you open group policy management console in administrative tools OR open start > Run > gpedit.msc                                                                                                                                             ...

How to hide specified drives in my computer for remote desktop user log in on server 2008

By default all drives of server show in my computer when user log in to server. Using group policy we can hide specified drive for remote desktop users. Follow the below steps to hide specified drive of my computers. if you created active directory server then you open group policy management console in administrative tools OR open start > Run > gpedit.msc                                                                                                                                                                                     ...