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http://blogs.technet.com/brad_rutkowski/archive/2008/01/04/systemroot-system32-rdpdd-dll-failed-to-load.aspx

RDP simply flashes when you try to RDP

\SystemRoot\System32\RDPDD.dll failed to load

This is an FYI post for an issue we’ve seen on a couple of Windows 2003 SP2 servers internally. Hopefully if someone hits this in the wild they’ll be able to find this post on the intertubes.
Symptom:
When attempting to connect from the client via RDP, you would click “connect” and then soon after it would silently fail and “connect” would be clickable again.

Each time when attempting to connect, the server would log this event:
Event Type: Information
Event Source: Application Popup
Event Category: None
Event ID: 26
Date: 9/25/2007
Time: 12:13:57 PM
User: N/A
Computer: ServerX
Description:
Application popup: : \SystemRoot\System32\RDPDD.dll failed to load

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 00000000 006c0002 00000000 4000001a
0010: c0000017 c000009a 00000000 00000000
0020: 00000000 00000000

Our Resolution
A) We found that in our cases it was an issue with the ATI driver and by either rolling back the ATI driver for the display on the server or upgrading the display driver on the server resolved the issue. Reports in the comments show the same for Nvidia drivers

B) In another instance it was found that by going to: Display Properties –> Settings –> Advanced –> Troubleshoot, turn off “Hardware acceleration” resolved the issue as well without adjusting the drivers.

C) On the internet I’ve seen posts showing SFC to help but in my cases it did not.

Update from comments:

D) A solution found at http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=67147&hl=remote%20desktop&st=60 worked for me (and others.)
It’s a registry fix that increases the size of the session image space. Add the following key:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management]
“SessionImageSize”=dword:00000020
Where 00000020 is hex for 32
In any case the event was a red herring and was just a generic error being bubbled up from Win32k.sys..

NOTE: We were able to change the entry remotely using regedit to connect over the network – the reboot the server.

While installing the Oracle Client on Windows 7 64-bit we encountered an error regarding the Operating System Version.

We were able to modify: win64_11gR1_client\client\stage\prereq\client\refhost.xml

WAS

Added…above

And the install continued.

Our customer has a Dell PowerEdge 830 with no RAID controller. We added an adaptec 1420SA and 2 SATA Hard drives. Then when we installed the Dell Open Manager we started seeing this message:

Device:SERVERNAME 1.1.1.1, Service Tag:xxxxxx, Asset Tag:, Date:01/05/10, Time:09:36:07:000, Severity:Warning, Message:Alert message ID: 2166, Controller warning. The RAID controller firmware and driver validation was not performed. The configuration file is out of date or corrupted. C:\Program Files\Dell\SysMgt\sm/cfg/, system, Controller 0 (PERC 2 Family)

What we tried:
1) renamed the file C:\Program Files\Dell\SysMgt\sm\cfg\adapver.cfg – just changed the message above to “The RAID controller firmware and driver validation was not performed. The configuration file cannot be opened. C:\Program Files\Dell\SysMgt\sm/cfg/adapver.cfg”
2) edited the file – couldn’t make sense of it – so we tried changing lots of values with no change in the message.
3) uninstalled ‘Dell OpenManage Server Administrator’
4) re-installed ‘Dell OpenManage Server Administrator’ version 6.2 from dell’s website

What worked:
1) edit this file C:\Program Files\Dell\SysMgt\sm\stsvc.ini
2) find this section:
; Enable/disable the firmware and driver version check at startup of the Systems Management Data Manager.
DepCheck=Off
NRSDepCheck=On
3) Change DepCheck from On to Off as you see above.
4) To confirm – restart the ‘DSM SA Data Manager’ service.

Q: Word 2002 had a document loaded with images.  But when the page was printed there were no images.  We printed to a print-preview and they still didn’t show up.

A: Simply double-click on a picture, click on the Layout Tab and check to see if the Wrapping Style is “Behind Text”. We changed it to “Tight” and BAM!

Server 2003 SQL 2005 Enterprise could not modify or execute Maintenance Plans without seeing this message.

‘Agent XPs’ component is turned off as part of the security configuration for this server.  A system administrator can enable the use of ‘Agent XPs’ by using sp_configure.

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