Why I dislike printer drivers in Windows

I'd be battling a crazy case of the mstsc dumps.  Basically what happens is this; I'll remote to a server, and just as i'm getting started MSTSC (RDP)  crashes.  Frustrated as this just started happening no, major changes that should affect the rdp systems. I'm running windows 8 enterprise

it happened just about everytime to a windows 2008r2 box, or through Remote Desktop services.  I scoured Microsoft's new "Support site"  which is a slap in the face to people who've relied on being able to us it but i digress.

So I started up windows debugger, and I had to be quick about it since the main pain was through rds (use F6).  Thanks for split screens.  I was able to attach to mstsc.exe quick enough to catch the first break point. So i continued from that point till the actual crash. which led me to a dell throwing a c0000005 access denied message.  The DLL was dlxbujdm.dll which I traced back to a Dell printer driver...  I really don't like Dell printers.

It was my default printer and never had a problem before, so what happened???  I haven't a clue,  But I removed the printer driver and package, rebooted and no more crashes.  If you get a failure in removing, reboot and try removing again.  I think you'll find it'll work that time.

hope this helps someone else from a headache.

Slow rdp logons to terminal servers

Disable RSoP logging

the source of the logon delays was the large size of the WMI repository located on the servers at c:\windows\system32\wbem\repository\objects.DATA. When policies are applied by the user during logon, the system must read and write to the repository. When it is very large (we observed some servers with an objects.DATA file at 1.6GB in size), the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) service may block transactions for a period of time. By disabling the dependency on the Group Policy engine on this repository, the users no longer experienced delays during user log on.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2020286