September 2013 – GUNNALAG

September 30, 2013August 12, 2014Citrix, Repackaging, Server

Disabling/Hiding/Restricting “Administrative Tools” from Start Menu for non-admin domain users

A quick trick: is to restrict access to non-admin users to below path that way they don’t get it working. C:ProgramDataMicrosoftWindowsStart MenuProgramsAdministrative Tools Otherwise, the two options are to create a registry key or Group Policy Preference setting. Registry: SoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerAdvanced StartMenuAdminTools: Decimal 0 < p> Group Policy User Preference Setting: < p>

September 30, 2013Citrix, Windows Technologies

Compare Graphics Card settings for nVidia in RDP and ICA protocol

Environment/Setup details: Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4771 CPU @ 3.50GHz Graphics Card: NVIDIA Quadro K5000 OS: Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit build 7601 [Service Pack 1] RDP version: 6.2.9200 ICA Version: Server: Citrix XenApp 6.5 with Hotfixes: FP2 (XA650W2K8R2X64038) and XA650W2K8R2X64R02 Client: Citrix Client Plug-in 14.0.1.4 (via Receiver ver: 4.0.1.4) The RDP and ICA uses different display driver software : thus the support list for both differs. In RDP Session/Protocol: it uses RDPDD Chained DD In ICA Session/Protocol: it uses Citrix Systems inc. Display Driver The RDP and ICA both detect the existence of the graphic card attached […]

September 30, 2013August 12, 2014Desktop, Windows Technologies

How to stop/disable “Akamai NetSession Client” from auto-running on the system

These days, there are many different bulk software providing vendors, including VMware, Microsoft, Eurodownload, Citrix, Adobe etc. Many of these use the Akamai NetSession tool that you’ll get first installed as the download manager. The good thing about these software is it’s automatically resumes the download point from where it halted before so that you’ll not loose your downloaded content due to any of the network dis-connectivity. However, after installation this software, it’s “Akamai NetSession Client” will autorun on the systems upon every system restart and keeps on consuming the resources. To get rid of this component: Go ahead […]