Enabling Multiple Remote Desktop Sessions in Windows XP
As always, use at your own risk
Enabling Multiple Remote Desktop Sessions in Windows XP Professional and Media Center Edition 2005
Restart your computer in Safe Mode -
Turn off/disable
Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) and
Terminal Services
Right click My Computer
Select Properties
Click on the
Remote tab at the top of the window
UNCHECK the box next to, "
Allow users to connect remotely to this computer"
Click
OK
Go to
Start -> Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services
Find
Terminal Services in the list
Right click on
Terminal Services and click
Properties
In the
Startup Type box, select
Disabled
Click
OK to close the window
· Next you will replace the current version of the
Terminal Services DLL (termsrv.dll) with an unrestricted version from a previous release of Terminal Services.
Here is a copy of the
Terminal Services DLL - Save it to your Desktop or other suitable location
Using a file manager like
Windows Explorer open C:\Windows\system32\dllcache
Rename the file
termsrv.dll to termsrv_dll.bak or whatever you would like.
Copy the downloaded termsrv.dll file (the one you just downloaded from the web) to C:\Windows\system32\dllcache
Open the C:\Windows\system32 folder
Delete the file
termsrv.dll in C:\Windows\system32
· Now we can edit the Windows Registry to enable more than one RDP connection.
Go to
Start -> Run and
type regedit - Hopefully you knew that already
· Go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\Licensing Core
· Add a
DWORD Key named
EnableConcurrentSessions and give it a value of 1
· Close the
Registry Editor window
· Go to
Start -> Run and type
gpedit.msc to run the Group Policy Editor
· Browse to
Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Terminal Services and double click
Limit number of connections
· Select the
Enabled button and enter the number of connections you would like to enable….at least 2.
· Restart Windows
· Right click
My Computer and select
Properties.
· Click on the
Remote tab at the top of the window
·
CHECK the box next to, "
Allow users to connect remotely to this computer"
· Click
OK
· Go to
Start -> Control Panel ->Administrative Tools -> Services. Select
Terminal Services from the list and double click it or right-click -> Properties. Set the
Startup Type to
Manual.
· Restart Windows/Computer
