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<blockquote data-quote="clobber" data-source="post: 706642" data-attributes="member: 64615">Thanks for all the replies. Yeah, I'm familiar with the concurrent RDP hack, but have always been hesitant to use it. I hate to replace the term services with some random dll from the Internet, even though they claim it is just from an earlier release.&nbsp; Also, then I dont think you can RDP in as the actual user that my HTPC normal runs as. It is certainly something I will re-consider.I think rekenaar is right, MP is not active through the RDP session so I'm not sure Alt-F4 will work.Yep, right now I am using taskkill from a remote machine. I also found a program called Remote Process Explorer which lets you view and kill process via a GUI. As Jay_UK said, I thought I read a while back that killing the MP proc could corrupt a DB. Is that a reality?I know I'm suggesting the world, but ultimately what would be *awesome* is if MP would transition the configuration GUI to a web based alternative. Since I assume most people are running the HTPC on dedicated hardware, it sure would make things easier. Just bring up a web page, tell it to stop MP, then configure all the options, and restart. I'm really big on programs with web gui interfaces so that I can run them on my HTPC with minimal problems.thanks,</blockquote>

[QUOTE="clobber, post: 706642, member: 64615"] Thanks for all the replies. Yeah, I'm familiar with the concurrent RDP hack, but have always been hesitant to use it. I hate to replace the term services with some random dll from the Internet, even though they claim it is just from an earlier release. Also, then I dont think you can RDP in as the actual user that my HTPC normal runs as. It is certainly something I will re-consider. I think rekenaar is right, MP is not active through the RDP session so I'm not sure Alt-F4 will work. Yep, right now I am using taskkill from a remote machine. I also found a program called Remote Process Explorer which lets you view and kill process via a GUI. As Jay_UK said, I thought I read a while back that killing the MP proc could corrupt a DB. Is that a reality? I know I'm suggesting the world, but ultimately what would be *awesome* is if MP would transition the configuration GUI to a web based alternative. Since I assume most people are running the HTPC on dedicated hardware, it sure would make things easier. Just bring up a web page, tell it to stop MP, then configure all the options, and restart. I'm really big on programs with web gui interfaces so that I can run them on my HTPC with minimal problems. thanks, [/QUOTE]

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