How to Turn on Remote Desktop Remotely

Here's a simple trick that I've used countless times for enabling remote desktop on an XP or 2003 machine remotely. Windows 2000 requires a service to be installed, so this won't help there.

Just connect to the remote machine with regedit (or use reg.exe from the command line if you want), browse to  HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server, and set or create fDenyTSConnections (a DWORD) to 0.

Posted Sunday, October 29 2006 2:31 PM by Brian Desmond | 4 Comments
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#1 re: How to Turn on Remote Desktop Remotely

Sunday, January 07 2007 10:24 AM by Nirmal

I have just tested registry key on a remote computer and it didn't work!

Is there anything else we need to check on remote registry for it work?

Nirmal

nratawa@gmail.com

#2 re: How to Turn on Remote Desktop Remotely

Thursday, February 08 2007 8:41 PM by Richard M

This worked for me (without restarting computer or Terminal Service.)

You may have to STOP the Firewall (or add the exception or disable it a different way)

#3 re: How to Turn on Remote Desktop Remotely

Monday, April 30 2007 1:20 PM by KMZ

Sweet, I've wanted to this for quite some time!

#4 re: How to Turn on Remote Desktop Remotely

Tuesday, December 04 2007 7:15 PM by Anthony

This worked well for me.  I needed to gracefully logoff a few workstations on a network I administer, and it did the trick.  I was able to Remote from the server to the workstations, no problem.

Thanks for the tip!

Anthony

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