You have two computers in your house, one in the living room, the other in the office, however you want to perform certain tasks on the computer in the living room without leaving the office, enter Remote Desktop. Microsoft bundled with their latest release of Windows a neat little tool to do just that, Remote Desktop allows you to access any computer (assuming it is Vista Business/Ultimate) from another computer via a network connection. The guide below will walk you through the process of setting up remote desktop on your PC, future guides will show you how to connect to other computers in your network, via VPN, and how to secure those connections. If you have any comments or questions please post them below.
There are several ways to enable Remote Desktop in Windows 11. In this post, we will review them. Like many older Windows versions, Windows 11 has built-in support for remote connections that allows you to control a computer from another device using an RDP (remote desktop protocol) client software. Windows 11 keeps remote access disabled by default, which means you need to change a few settings in Windows before attempting to access a computer from another device. This article will show you how to turn on Remote Desktop in Windows 11.
Enabling Remote Desktop in Windows 7 Vista
Remote Desktop is a feature that comes standard with the Professional, Ultimate and Enterprise versions of Windows 7, 8, 8.1, Vista and even XP. However, it is not enabled by default. These instructions show you how to enable remote desktop on Windows 7.Note: If you are on a domain environment and need to remotely enable Remote Desktop, there is a different way to do this.
Pick one of these options and save the changes. You have now enabled remote desktop on your computer. This means you can go to another computer or mobile device on the network, open up Remote Desktop Connection, put in the name or IP address, and connect to the computer using administration credentials.
On Windows 7, Vista and XP, Microsoft has intentionally crippled the Remote Desktop server service to only allow one remote desktop session. Vista Business and Premium even have remote desktop disabled entirely. It is actually easy to re-enable this functionality. To fix this, follow the steps below.
Enter Your CredentialsMake the connection to the host with a username that has previously logged on at that computer. Check in the Control Panel of the host machine to see that the user has permission to use remote desktop.
The first step in troubleshooting is to check that the distant network computer is setup to allow remote desktop connections. On the client computer test with ping that you can contact the target machine. Once you can make a basic connection examine each tab in the Options.
Just so future google searches find this- these changes work perfectly with windows 8.1 and 10 as well. I tried them using RDP Wrapper on a windows 10 tablet with atom processor (I had to copy the registry settings over from a windows 8.1 enterprise system), and I can even watch YouTube on the local lan. Without the settings, the remote desktop works, but is extremely slow.
3. To enable Aero over Remote Desktop click Run in the Start menu, enter gpedit.msc and click OK. Browse to Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Remote Desktop Services -> Remote Desktop Session Host -> Remote Session Environment and open the Allow desktop composition for remote desktop connections property.
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