I copied a few files over from Windows 7 to Windows XP SP3 and got the RDP 7 to work. It was working great: Multi-monitor support, better video streaming speed, etc but after about 7 days it says my trial period has expired. I was able to back date the date on the XP box and got it working again. Is there a registry entry or file I need to move over to get it to just accept the RDP7 client and not give me the trial time-out error. Really makes demoing the "great new features" of Windows 7 to the boss when it bombs during your demo. Kind of makes themnot want to upgrade....

Microsoft does not supporting hacking system files for use on any other Windows operating system. I would suggest that you demonstrate RDP 7 on a computer running the Windows 7 beta operating system. Here is a link to a video demonstration of RDP 7: http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/ES21/ Carey Frisch

That defeats the purpose of having a demonstration virtual machine. I don't have a physical machine to load Windows 7 on to Demo Windows 7 to Windows 7. I have to use my XP worstationto a virtual Windows 7 machine which is all I have available at the moment for testing. Loading Windows 7 and the possibility of not having a functioning workstation is not an options currently.

You could create two virtual machines and have them both run Windows 7. This is doable from a laptop. If this is for the boss, I would suggest a couple of things. One, use a test workstation or server. If those resources are not available I would suggest asking the boss for some additional hardware so you can setup a lab/test environment.Joe

I thought about that but you still end up using RDP6.1 or the console view in the Hyper-V manager which appears to be a chopped down RDP version without all the bells and whistles. The so it does not demo the features nor the multi monitor capabilities. It was great seeing the differences side by side RDP7 to one of my Windows 7 VMs and RDP6 to the other Windows 7 VM. Guess I'm stuck waiting till they officialy release RDP7. Hopefully they do it before the organization I work for moves to another technology. Coming back to MS will be hard to convince after they spendbillions of dollars on something else.