Massive Problems with Terminal Services

[Alex O'Hara]

I've been trying to get my computer back up and running several times now.
I'm running a Dell XPS2010 and I've had many, many problems. I've recently
reverted back to XP after many many months of crappy drivers for Vista
causing all kinds of headaches.

I try to install the new Windows search program only to have it tell me I
need to enable terminal services. I go to services....and it's not there.
Nor, as far as I can tell, is it anywhere on my computer. I reinstalled from
a regular Media Center edition disk (with valid key) and many things are
missing, including Media Center.

However, I'd really like to figure out to install terminal services since it
seems to be the root of a lot of the programs I'm completely unable to
install.

I've been all over the web, but most of the solutions involve mucking about
in the registry, which I'm reticent to try based on my actual level of skill.

 

[Alex O''Hara]

RE: Massive Problems with Terminal Services

Just in case it helps, i also updated to SP3 fresh from a pre-SP2 disk.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Re: Massive Problems with Terminal Services

Alex O'Hara <Alex O'Hara@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> I've been trying to get my computer back up and running several times
> now. I'm running a Dell XPS2010 and I've had many, many problems.
> I've recently reverted back to XP after many many months of crappy
> drivers for Vista causing all kinds of headaches.
>
> I try to install the new Windows search program only to have it tell
> me I need to enable terminal services. I go to services....and it's
> not there. Nor, as far as I can tell, is it anywhere on my computer.
> I reinstalled from a regular Media Center edition disk (with valid
> key) and many things are missing, including Media Center.
>
> However, I'd really like to figure out to install terminal services
> since it seems to be the root of a lot of the programs I'm completely
> unable to install.
>
> I've been all over the web, but most of the solutions involve mucking
> about in the registry, which I'm reticent to try based on my actual
> level of skill.

Terminal Services is a server feature only and isn't something you could
install on XP. You can enable remote desktop, and yes, the underlying
windows service is called "terminal services", but if you're running Windows
XP try posting in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general with more detail (error
messages, etc).