Remote Session Was Disconnected Because Client Access License Stored on this Computer Has Been Modified

The last day I was working at a client and tried to login via a remote desktop session. Although this was working earlier, I now suddenly got this error:

The remote session was disconnected because the remote desktop client access license stored on this computer has been modified

My colleague could still log in so the connection to the desktop was not an issue. After searching a little bit I stumbled upon this article.

The steps you have to follow are:

• Edit the registry (if you have no clue how, please stop reading and ask someone from IT to do it for you)
• Just to be sure, backup the registry or create a restore point
• Delete the key located at:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\MSLicensing
 

Now the next time the client connects to the server, it will obtain another license.

Windows 10 Black Lock Screen

For the solution, scroll down, for the story, read on.

After returning from holiday last week I had some Windows Updates to install and afterwards my lock screen was changed. Whenever I locked my computer it would show up like below.

Black Lock screen without background

 And when I then want to log in and entered the sign-in screen, the Windows spotlight background appears, as I expected in the previous screen.

Sign-in screen with background

After some searching I couldn't find this specific issue so I started looking at the Lock screen options myself.

You can open the Lock screen options by typing "lock" after pushing the start button and clicking Lock screen settings, or opening the Action Center by clicking on the notification icon and clicking All settings > Personalization > Lock screen.

Action center

Either way you should end up in this screen:

Lock screen settings

I found out that the slider on the bottom, the one that reads "Show lock screen background picture on the sign-in screen", is the culprit. Apparently this also makes the background go away at the lock screen, they could've mentioned that IMO…

TL;DR

By switching the button in the Lock screen settings to Off, the background will appear again in the lock screen.

HTH

Overlay Icons Not Showing Up In Explorer

I came across this issue, when using Dropbox or SVN for example (or every other source control tool) that once in a while the overlay icons, or ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers as they are officially called, of those tools are suddenly not working anymore. Restarting the Explorer doesn't work.

It seems that those icons have registry entries, so we can look at how many items we have in there and see if we are hitting the limit of 15. Why 15? No idea.. Some Windows developer brought this up a long time ago maybe? :)

Open Regedit (if you don't know how to, then you shouldn't be editing it), and go to

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIcon‌​OverlayIdentifiers or
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explor‌​er\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers

I currently have the following items in my registry:

I edited the Dropbox-items so they are always on the top of the list. OneDrive and GDrive also both have overlay icons, so the limit of 15 can quickly be reached.

If there are more than 15 items, then either uninstall or reconfigure applications that are shown there or remove the registry entries manually (backing them up of course).

After you have made some changes in the registry be sure to restart the Explorer and you're good to go!