Enable Remote Desktop Remotely

Tue, Sep 30, 2008

If you work in a business environment and you need remote access to a PC, one of the more popular ways of accessing a system via Remote Desktop (Terminal Services). The problem is, if it’s not enabled on a machine and you can’t walk someone through the process, you can only do so remotely.

Here is how you do so, from another computer.

1. Go to Start>Run

2. Type Regedit and click Ok

3. Go to File>Connect to Network Registry

4. Type in the computer name and click ‘check name’ to verify it’s the proper computer. If the Windows Firewall is blocking access, you may get stuck here. You may also stop the Windows Firewall service remotely if need be.

5. Go to HKEY_Local_MachineSystemCurrentControlSetControlTerminal Server

6. Change ‘fDenyTSConnections’ from 1 to 0.

7. You will then have to access computer management and restart the Windows Terminal Server service.

8. I will show you how to restart this service remotely in my next post.

Related posts:

Creating a new ‘ Show Desktop ‘ Icon

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T.J. Mininday - who has written 110 posts on The Windows Fix.

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