{"id":775,"date":"2011-11-18T19:02:15","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T19:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/?p=775"},"modified":"2011-11-18T19:02:15","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T19:02:15","slug":"windows-7-remote-desktop-connection-has-stopped-working-startup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/fixes\/windows-7-remote-desktop-connection-has-stopped-working-startup","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 Remote desktop connection has stopped working Startup"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Remote-Desktop-connection.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-777 img-responsive\" title=\"Remote Desktop connection\" src=\"http:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Remote-Desktop-connection-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Remote-Desktop-connection-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Remote-Desktop-connection.jpg 522w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>When trying to open my RDP Client MSTSC.exe , it gave me the follow error: &#8220;<strong>Remote desktop connection has stopped working<\/strong>&#8221; , after looking at the crash it seemed the fault had occured with mstscax.dll<\/p>\r\n<p>I found the file from a working Windows 7 SP1 32bit machine here : <a href=\"http:\/\/pariswells.com\/upload\/mstscax.zip\">http:\/\/pariswells.com\/upload\/mstscax.zip<\/a> and copied and replaced the dll in C:\\Windows\\System32\\mstscax.dll , which fixed the issue<\/p>\r\n<p>To get round the trusted installer , you will need to give yourself ownership of the file , then change the security settings so you have full write access to it<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When trying to open my RDP Client MSTSC.exe , it gave me the follow error: &#8220;Remote desktop connection has stopped working&#8221; , after looking at the crash [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[451,450,356],"class_list":["post-775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fixes","tag-mstscax-dll","tag-remote-desktop-connection-has-stopped-working","tag-windows-7"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":778,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions\/778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}