Sorry for the cross-post but I'm desparate!!

Murphy's Law has struck with a vengeance, I leave tomorrow on a two-week
business trip and my laptop has chosen this time to lose its mind.

When I try to use Remote Desktop on my Vista laptop to connect to my XP
desktop (something I have done thousands of times in the past), it makes the
connection, asks for my password, starts to draw the screen, and then
freezes. If I double-click on the little Remote Desktop tabby thing at the
top of the screen, it eventually returns me to my laptop screen with the
message "unhandled win32 exception occurred in mstsc.exe [532]" and an offer
to invoke a debugger (which isn't terribly useful as I have no symbols for
any of the modules).

Since the last time it worked for me, I've installed a sound driver and
Skype (I'll be overseas, and Skype is the best way for me to communicate
back home). I can try uninstalling those, but it was a pain to get the
sound driver installed (everything is a pain with this laptop, I'll think
twice about buying a Gateway laptop in the future) and I'd really rather
not.

Now this morning the Ethernet driver has uninstalled itself. I tracked down
the install disk and re-installed it, but nothing happened. Until I
rebooted, which the installer didn't say needed to happen.

No complaints in the device manager for any of these issues.

Any suggestions as to what I can try next?

Thanks,
Chris

For troubleshooting, you may want to start the computer with clean boot. If
it works, it may be the Skype.
Windows general
How to run Windows OS with a clean boot · How to Run Windows Safe Mode
with Networking · How to setup DHCP for IP Phone How to sort programs in
Start ...
http://www.howtonetworking.com/Windo...owsgeneral.htm


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"Chris Shearer Cooper" wrote in message
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Sorry for the cross-post but I'm desparate!!

Murphy's Law has struck with a vengeance, I leave tomorrow on a two-week
business trip and my laptop has chosen this time to lose its mind.

When I try to use Remote Desktop on my Vista laptop to connect to my XP
desktop (something I have done thousands of times in the past), it makes
the connection, asks for my password, starts to draw the screen, and then
freezes. If I double-click on the little Remote Desktop tabby thing at
the top of the screen, it eventually returns me to my laptop screen with
the message "unhandled win32 exception occurred in mstsc.exe [532]" and an
offer to invoke a debugger (which isn't terribly useful as I have no
symbols for any of the modules).

Since the last time it worked for me, I've installed a sound driver and
Skype (I'll be overseas, and Skype is the best way for me to communicate
back home). I can try uninstalling those, but it was a pain to get the
sound driver installed (everything is a pain with this laptop, I'll think
twice about buying a Gateway laptop in the future) and I'd really rather
not.

Now this morning the Ethernet driver has uninstalled itself. I tracked
down the install disk and re-installed it, but nothing happened. Until I
rebooted, which the installer didn't say needed to happen.

No complaints in the device manager for any of these issues.

Any suggestions as to what I can try next?

Thanks,
Chris