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Activate Remote Desktop Remotely

Posted on May 18th, 2007 AndyParkes 4 comments

Just a small nugget as i have used this a couple of times but always forget which registry key it is!

If you have a pc your trying to Remote Desktop into but it isn’t enabled, use the remote editing features of regedit to change the following

HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\fDenyTSConnections

Change it from 1 to 0 and your in!

I’ve used this on XP but not Vista yet but the same key exists so i’m guessing it still applies

Windows XP
4 Responses to “Activate Remote Desktop Remotely”
1. Julie November 20th, 2007 at 5:03 pm
  
  You can also use psexec to call netsh on the remote machine to enable remote desktop. See my post at:
  
  http://thebackroomtech.wordpress.com/2007/05/18/how-to-enable-remote-desktop-on-a-windows-xp-machine-remotely/
  
  - Julie
2. andyparkes November 23rd, 2007 at 9:48 am
  
  Thanks Julie
  
  Always like to here other ways of doing things!
3. Darius June 11th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
  
  how about users, where can add users with registry?
4. Aaron October 14th, 2008 at 12:42 am
  
  Thanks heaps for that, just saved me a bunch of time!
  
  and thanks for the Link to your info Julie, a new thing to play with
  
  - Aaron
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