When I tried the same way on a Windows 7 or Windows 8 machine, I was given an error telling me that The trick works well until Windows 7 comes along. And you can download it from IntelliAdmin’s download page, which is close to the bottom of the page. Tired of this type of registry messing around? There is a free tool called Remote Desktop Enabler that can help you with that. Yes, half of the computers I did on this needed to reboot to make the setting kicked in. You may or may not reboot the computer after the update. HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal ServerĪnd change fDenyTSConnection from 1 (disabled) to 0 (enabled). Once it’s opened, navigator to the following location: Open regedit, go to File, and choose Connect Network Registry… And because we are talking about remotely enabling this service, we will need to connect to remote computer first.

Here is the trick, which basically is a registry setting that needs to be turned to 1 from 0, meaning enable. This trick isn’t new and has been around since XP days when remote desktop protocol was first introduced, but it’s definitely worth re-visiting and see how it works on both Windows 7 and 8.