With Windows XP every PC can run the remote desktop service which you can connect to with rdesktop. The last couple of times I've tried this it has crashed XWin.exe. My machine normally has two monitors at 1280x1024, 32-bit colour, but when connecting with rdesktop I use 1024x720, and I think the colour depth is lower too since some icons look a bit funny. Here is the XWin.log from the most recent crash. It seems to show that the crash happened when I went back to the local screen and unlocked it.
Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 4.3.0.66 Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] XWin was started with the following command line: /usr/X11R6/bin/XWin -clipboard ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1280 h 1024 winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning OsVendorInit - Creating bogus screen 0 winValidateArgs - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1 winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 00000007 winScreenInit - dwWidth: 1280 dwHeight: 1024 winSetEngine - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking winAdjustVideoModeShadowDDNL - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - User w: 1280 h: 1024 winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - Current w: 1280 h: 1024 winAdjustForAutoHide - Original WorkArea: 0 0 996 1280 winAdjustForAutoHide - Adjusted WorkArea: 0 0 996 1280 winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - WindowClient w 1274 h 971 r 1274 l 0 b 971 t 0 winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - Returning winCreatePrimarySurfaceShadowDDNL - Creating primary surface winCreatePrimarySurfaceShadowDDNL - Created primary surface winCreatePrimarySurfaceShadowDDNL - Attached clipper to primary surface winAllocateFBShadowDDNL - lPitch: 5096 winAllocateFBShadowDDNL - Created shadow pitch: 5096 winAllocateFBShadowDDNL - Created shadow stride: 1274 winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff winInitVisualsShadowDDNL - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff BPRGB 8 d 24 bpp 32 winRandRInit () winCreateDefColormap - Deferring to fbCreateDefColormap () winFinishScreenInitFB - returning winScreenInit - returning InitOutput - Returning. MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack of shared memory support in the kernel (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=250, rate=31 (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00000809" (00000809) (--) Using preset keyboard for "English (United Kingdom)" (809), type "4" Rules = "xfree86" Model = "pc105" Layout = "gb" Variant = "(null)" Options = "(null)" Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from list! winPointerWarpCursor - Discarding first warp: 637 485 winBlockHandler - Releasing pmServerStarted winBlockHandler - pthread_mutex_unlock () returned winProcEstablishConnection - Hello winInitClipboard () winProcEstablishConnection - winInitClipboard returned. winClipboardProc - Hello DetectUnicodeSupport - Windows NT/2000/XP winClipboardProc - DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 winClipboardProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the display. winClipboardWindowProc - WM_DRAWCLIPBOARD - Initializing - Returning. winShadowUpdateDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt () failed: 887601c2 winShadowUpdateDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt () failed: 887601c2 winShadowUpdateDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt () failed: 887601c2 winShadowUpdateDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt () failed: 887601c2 winShadowUpdateDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt () failed: 887601c2 winShadowUpdateDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt () failed: 887601c2 winShadowUpdateDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt () failed: 887601c2 winShadowUpdateDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt () failed: 887601c2 winShadowUpdateDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt () failed: 887601c2 winShadowUpdateDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt () failed: 887601c2 winShadowUpdateDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt failure message maximum (10) reached. No more failure messages will be printed. winBltExposedRegionsShadowDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt reported that the primary surface was lost, trying to restore, retry: 1 winBltExposedRegionsShadowDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Restore returned: DD_OK winBltExposedRegionsShadowDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt reported that the primary surface was lost, trying to restore, retry: 2 winBltExposedRegionsShadowDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Restore returned: DD_OK winBltExposedRegionsShadowDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt reported that the primary surface was lost, trying to restore, retry: 1 winBltExposedRegionsShadowDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Restore returned: DD_OK winBltExposedRegionsShadowDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt reported that the primary surface was lost, trying to restore, retry: 1 winBltExposedRegionsShadowDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Restore returned: DD_OK winBltExposedRegionsShadowDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt reported that the primary surface was lost, trying to restore, retry: 2 winBltExposedRegionsShadowDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Restore returned: DD_OK winBltExposedRegionsShadowDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt reported that the primary surface was lost, trying to restore, retry: 1 winBltExposedRegionsShadowDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Restore returned: DD_OK winBltExposedRegionsShadowDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt reported that the primary surface was lost, trying to restore, retry: 2 winBltExposedRegionsShadowDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Restore returned: DD_OK winBltExposedRegionsShadowDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt reported that the primary surface was lost, trying to restore, retry: 1 winBltExposedRegionsShadowDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Restore returned: DD_OK winBltExposedRegionsShadowDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt reported that the primary surface was lost, trying to restore, retry: 1 winBltExposedRegionsShadowDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Restore returned: DD_OK winBltExposedRegionsShadowDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt reported that the primary surface was lost, trying to restore, retry: 1 winBltExposedRegionsShadowDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Restore returned: DD_OK winBltExposedRegionsShadowDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt reported that the primary surface was lost, trying to restore, retry: 2 winBltExposedRegionsShadowDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Restore returned: DD_OK winBltExposedRegionsShadowDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt reported that the primary surface was lost, trying to restore, retry: 1 winBltExposedRegionsShadowDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Restore returned: DD_OK winBltExposedRegionsShadowDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt reported that the primary surface was lost, trying to restore, retry: 1 winBltExposedRegionsShadowDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Restore returned: DD_OK winBltExposedRegionsShadowDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt reported that the primary surface was lost, trying to restore, retry: 2 winBltExposedRegionsShadowDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Restore returned: DD_OK winWindowProc - WM_DISPLAYCHANGE - orig bpp: 32, last bpp: 32, new bpp: 8 winWindowProc - WM_DISPLAYCHANGE - new width: 1024 new height: 720 winWindowProc - Disruptive change in depth winDisplayDepthChangeDialog - DialogBox returned: 8585334 winDisplayDepthChangeDialog - GetLastError: 6 winReleasePrimarySurfaceShadowDDNL - Hello winReleasePrimarySurfaceShadowDDNL - Detached clipper winReleasePrimarySurfaceShadowDDNL - Released primary surface winCreatePrimarySurfaceShadowDDNL - Creating primary surface winCreatePrimarySurfaceShadowDDNL - Could not create primary surface: 8876024e winWindowProc - WM_ACTIVATE - Bad depth, trying to override window activation winWindowProc - WM_ACTIVATE - Bad depth, trying to override window activation winWindowProc - WM_ACTIVATE - Bad depth, trying to override window activation winWindowProc - WM_ACTIVATE - Bad depth, trying to override window activation winWindowProc - WM_ACTIVATE - Bad depth, trying to override window activation winChangeDelthDlgProc - wParam == s_pScreenInfo->dwBPP winWindowProc - WM_DISPLAYCHANGE - orig bpp: 32, last bpp: 8, new bpp: 32 winWindowProc - WM_DISPLAYCHANGE - new width: 1280 new height: 1024 winReleasePrimarySurfaceShadowDDNL - Hello winReleasePrimarySurfaceShadowDDNL - Released primary surface winCreatePrimarySurfaceShadowDDNL - Creating primary surface winCreatePrimarySurfaceShadowDDNL - Could not create primary surface: 8876024e winClipboardProc - Call to select () failed: -1. Bailing. winClipboardProc - XDestroyWindow succeeded. -- Ed Avis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>