I've recently encountered an annoying bug when trying to connect to a dell laptop using Remote Desktop..

Every time a remote desktop connection will be established to the laptop machine and the laptop was using a wireless connection, the following would happen:

1. The remote desktop logon screen would appear on the connecting side.

2. Entering the logon info would lead to a power down of the wireless card on the remote laptop machine.

3. The connection will be broken on the laptop side.

3. A blank remote desktop screen would appear on the connecting machine.

4. The remote desktop connection will eventually time out on the connecting machine.

The problem seems to be related to power saving options but cannot be resolved using the advanced parameters available with the wireless card.

The problem only appears when using the Dell Wireless WLAN Card Utility.

This problem was produced on a dell laptop running Windows XP SP2 with a dell wireless 1390 card.

To solve the problem disable the Dell Wireless WLAN Card Utility and let Windows manage the wireless configuration.

To do that:

1. Open Dell Wireless WLAN Card Utility in the Control Panel.

2. Uncheck the "Let this tool manage your wireless networks" check box.

3. Configure your wireless connection using the standard Windows wireless utility.

If any one else had a similar problem on their dell laptops please drop me a comment below so I can collect more data to send to Dell regarding this bug.