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How to Remotely Enable Remote Desktop (Terminal Services or RDP) via Registry in Windows 2000/XP/2000/Vista/2008

Remote Desktop or RDP service is a free yet useful tool to remotely log on to remote computer and gain full access and privileges as if user is in front of local console. Remote Desktop is also known as Terminal Services. Its useful if the server, or PC is located miles away in remote location, and frequent trip to the site to troubleshoot, configure or manage the system is not a viable option. Although most versions of Windows operating system such as Windows 2000, 2003, 2008, XP and Vista does come packaged with Remote Desktop, however its disabled by default. Turning on and enabling the Remote Desktop via local console is easy, where Microsoft provides similar GUI (graphical user interface) in all editions of Windows (refer to guide on enable Remote Desktop in Vista). However, if an off-site server needs to be access via Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) client immediately, yet the
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Remote Desktop is not enabled on the server, then it will be a headache. Luckily its possible to remotely enable and turn of the Remote Desktop service on a remote PC or server by remotely editing its registry. To remotely enable Remote Desktop on another computer, follow these steps: 1. 2. 3. 4. Login to the workstation with administrator credentials. Run Registry Editor (regedit). Click on File menu. Select the Connect Network Registry in the pull down menu.

5. A Select Computer dialog search box is opened. Type the host name of the remote computer in the text box, or browse Active Directory to locate the remote server, or click on Advanced button to search for the remote computer.

6. Click OK after the remote computer is selected. A node for the remote computer network registry will be displayed in the Registry Editor with HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE (HKLM) and HKEY_USERS (HKU) hives.

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7. Navigate to the following registry key for the remote computer: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server 8. In the right pane, locate a REG_DWORD value named fDenyTSConnection. Double-click on fDenyTSConnection and change the value data from 1 (Remote Desktop disabled) to 0 (Remote Desktop enabled).

9. Reboot the remote machine by issuing the following command in Command Prompt: shutdown -m \\hostname -r Replace hostname with the actual computer name of the remote host. 10. Remote Desktop for the remote computer has been enabled, and listening on default Remote Desktop port for any incoming Remote Desktop Connection. For security reason, you may want to consider changing the Remote Desktop listening port. There are also plenty of freeware utility that allows user to remotely enable Remote Desktop without modifying registry.
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15 Worked like a charm! Thanks much. 4. ner0 January 25th, 2011 03:25 14 People may have a point when complaining about not being able to connect to a remote computer using RDP even after the registry tweak and reboot of the remote machine. Even in AD, some fu*ked up workstations dont proprely assign policies and windows firewall may be enabled with RDP unthicked in the exceptions. For this, open services.msc: Then Actions > Connect to another computer, type the name or IP to connect to the remote services of the computer and stop the firewall service. 5. Tsvetozar Ivanov December 29th, 2010 18:52 13 Thanks for the article it is really helpful. 6. daniel November 9th, 2010 19:14 12 Worked like a charm. For those who say its not working 1. You may have to be logged in with a domain admin account if you machine is on a domain. I tried it with my normal account, which is an admin to the machine but that didnt work. 2. Type shutdown ? to get the full options, you may have to do something like /f to force the machine to close programs. 7. Abdurrahman Gori August 31st, 2010 16:40 11 Hi, Its not working in DC. 8. Sikosis August 17th, 2010 09:25 10 Except this doesnt work I connect to the machine and get an error saying Unable to connect to . Make sure that this computer is on the network, has remote administration enabled and that both computers are running the remote registry service. 9. msoule
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January 29th, 2010 07:28 9 Hey thanks! Great trick. For the record, I tried this on a Win2k3 server and Windows XP and no reboot was needed on either. It simply accepted connections after the reg change. 10. N January 12th, 2010 07:09 8 I Love u you made my day thanks alot 11. andy panda July 20th, 2009 21:02 7 btw you dont need to restart the machine after editing the registry. 12. Remote Desktop Connection from XP Pro to Vista Ult? - FinalGear.com Forums June 6th, 2009 12:56 6 [...] figured out the problem, I needed to edit a registry entry. http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/0 2000vista2008/ [...] 13. Mr. Checker January 2nd, 2009 05:48 5 so what is the real value name????? fDenyTSConnections or fDenyTSConnection You have both listed 14. andreas October 14th, 2008 23:15 4 p.s. after clicking on the bermitteln (Submit) button the language setting is lost and the english original stuff appears instead the german translation. Only the button keeps his original language. 15. andreas October 14th, 2008 23:13
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3 meine Gte schaltet blo die bersetzung ab wenn der User nicht explizit eine mchte. Das Deutsch ist grauenhaft und schwer verstndlich. Oh my god, please switch off the german translation because it is FOOBAR and very difficult to understand even for a native speaker. 16. 82drops June 25th, 2008 22:05 2 People always stuff up their registry. Remote desktop is awesome though, it allows me to work from home even though im just down the road. I like finishing stuff off at home rather than a late night in the office. 17. Freeware to Turn On and Enable Remote Desktop on Another Computer Remotely My Digital Life June 25th, 2008 02:40 1 [...] can remotely enable and turn on Remote Desktop (Terminal Services) in remote computer or server in another or off-site location via network to accept incoming RDC connection. However, if manually [...]

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