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>

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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 […]

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Setting up applications using nVidia Graphics Card with GPU Sharing to work in Citrix XenApp environment

First and foremost to understand is that if you are working on a System that has both built-in video card and an added Graphics card with GPU, your system will default to the Graphics card that is on the motherboard. Thus you’ll not be getting any benefits of your added graphics card. As of this writing, I didn’t find any way/options to instruct/configure a Graphic Card usage for particular protocol say it for either RDP/ICA/VNC whatever all of these just keep using your default graphics card.  Even disabling the card from device manager even will not bring your secondary card […]

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