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     * :!: Enable "Welcome screen"  and "Fast user switching" in Settings-Useraccounts. If you don't do this, you will not be able to use seamless mode and possible have problems keeping your sessions alive.
   - create a short shellscript containing your command line, e.g.:\\ ''rdesktop -g 1024x768 -k de-ch -u user -p password machine-name''
-  - Performance is very good and can be tuned further using the commandline parameters of rdesktop.
-To enable seamless RDP mode (running applications without a desktop, taskbar etc.):
+Notes:
+  * Performance is very good and can be tuned further using the commandline parameters of rdesktop.
+  * I use this to run outlook 2003 which runs on a windows XP vmware virtual machine. Startup time and responsiveness is excellent, definitely production quality!
+  * Other applications, which you have not yet found replacements for, can be run in the same way.
+To enable seamless RDP mode (running applications without a desktop, taskbar etc.) you need a small server side component is available as open source from Cendio (http://www.cendio.com/seamlessrdp/):
   - Get the server side component, "seamlessrdpshell" from http://www.cendio.com/seamlessrdp/seamlessrdp.zip, or my {{:blog:seamlessrdp.zip|local copy}}
   - Unpack the files to some directory on the windows machine server, such as ''c:\seamlessrdp''.