Remote Desktop Expired?

I'm receiving a strange error when using Remote Desktop. I have been using
this successfully for 6 months. All of a sudden, I'm receiving an error
message stating."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 never installed a "pre-release" version. I tried uninstalliing, but
cannot. It just clones itself back. There is no uninstall option. I've
attempted to install a fresh version from Microsoft, but I get an error
stating, "Remote Desktop Connection cannot be installed because your
operating system already has a built in version."
Any help getting this back up & running?
I 'm running XP Home Edition, SP 3.

Try downloading & installing the software,its
at:http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/t...displayLang=en

"Reg614" wrote:

> I'm receiving a strange error when using Remote Desktop. I have been using
> this successfully for 6 months. All of a sudden, I'm receiving an error
> message stating."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 never installed a "pre-release" version. I tried uninstalliing, but
> cannot. It just clones itself back. There is no uninstall option. I've
> attempted to install a fresh version from Microsoft, but I get an error
> stating, "Remote Desktop Connection cannot be installed because your
> operating system already has a built in version."
> Any help getting this back up & running?
> I 'm running XP Home Edition, SP 3.
>

Same case here....I'm runnning Windows XP Professional SP3


On 4$B7n(B8$BF|(B, $B>e8a(B9$B;~(B11$BJ,(B, Andrew E. <eckric...@msn.com> wrote:
> Try downloading & installing the software,its
> at:http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/t...Id=e2ff8fb5-97...
>
>
>
> "Reg614" wrote:
> > I'm receiving a strange error when using Remote Desktop. I have been using
> > this successfully for 6 months. All of a sudden, I'm receiving an error
> > message stating."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 never installed a "pre-release" version. I tried uninstalliing, but
> > cannot. It just clones itself back. There is no uninstall option. I've
> > attempted to install a fresh version from Microsoft, but I get an error
> > stating, "Remote Desktop Connection cannot be installed because your
> > operating system already has a built in version."
> > Any help getting this back up & running?
> > I 'm running XP Home Edition, SP 3.- $Bp,i6Ho0zMQJ8;z(B -
>
> - $Bp}<(Ho0zMQJ8;z(B -

I just find in somewhere there are a stupid way to fix it!
But it works!!

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r202...re-has-expired

Big scare when I tried to remote into a system at work today.
I resolved the problem by copying mstsc.exe and mstscax.dll in "c:
\windows\system32" over from an XP SP2 Machine. Works great and I get
to keep SP3





On 4$B7n(B8$BF|(B, $B2<8a(B4$B;~(B26$BJ,(B, albert...@gmail.com wrote:
> Same case here....I'm runnning Windows XP Professional SP3
>
> On 4$B7n(B8$BF|(B, $B>e8a(B9$B;~(B11$BJ,(B, Andrew E. <eckric...@msn.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Try downloading & installing the software,its
> > at:http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/t...Id=e2ff8fb5-97...
>
> > "Reg614" wrote:
> > > I'm receiving a strange error when using Remote Desktop. I have been using
> > > this successfully for 6 months. All of a sudden, I'm receiving an error
> > > message stating."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 never installed a "pre-release" version. I tried uninstalliing, but
> > > cannot. It just clones itself back. There is no uninstall option. I've
> > > attempted to install a fresh version from Microsoft, but I get an error
> > > stating, "Remote Desktop Connection cannot be installed because your
> > > operating system already has a built in version."
> > > Any help getting this back up & running?
> > > I 'm running XP Home Edition, SP 3.- $Bp,i6Ho0zMQJ8;z(B -
>
> > - $Bp}<(Ho0zMQJ8;z(B -- $Bp,i6Ho0zMQJ8;z(B -
>
> - $Bp}<(Ho0zMQJ8;z(B -

While you may not have specifically downloaded a pre-release version of
Remote Desktop, it may have been included in the beta download of Windows XP
Service Pack 3, if you've applied that.

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"Reg614" <Reg614@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2E3F4E23-6F2F-4828-9B8E-3613924544F8@microsoft.com...
> I'm receiving a strange error when using Remote Desktop. I have been
> using
> this successfully for 6 months. All of a sudden, I'm receiving an error
> message stating."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 never installed a "pre-release" version. I tried uninstalliing, but
> cannot. It just clones itself back. There is no uninstall option. I've
> attempted to install a fresh version from Microsoft, but I get an error
> stating, "Remote Desktop Connection cannot be installed because your
> operating system already has a built in version."
> Any help getting this back up & running?
> I 'm running XP Home Edition, SP 3.
>