Enable Remote desktop via the registry

If you have ever run into an issue where you have set up a server but forgot to put the tick in the box to enable remote desktop, then read on!

 Many times I have done this and then had to go all the way over to the server (sometimes in different offices) to enable it..  if only I had known!

Just connect to the remote registry of the server in question and head to

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server

Under the Terminal Server key, you'll find a REG_DWORD value named fDenyTSConnection. Double-click on that value to open the Edit DWORD Value box and change the value data from 1 (Remote Desktop disabled) to 0 (Remote Desktop enabled)

Easy when you know how!

Comments

• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
  PingBack from http://litzy.netinfodigest.info/remotedesktopregistry.html

• Anonymous
  August 03, 2013
  found this guide as well: www.silentcrash.com/.../enable-remote-desktop-remotely-by-using-the-registry thanks

• Anonymous
  May 23, 2014
  The value name is actually fDenyTSConnections (plural), atleast on 2012R2.

• Anonymous
  December 15, 2015
  Thanks. It worked for me