Remote desktop is missing vista

Correct me if I am wrong. Maarten said on March 5, at am. C said on March 8, at pm. John said on March 10, at am. Shawn said on March 10, at am. Ok, so I have ultraVNC, same thing really. Very very easy to set up. It works but only if A: There is no password screen— I must be logged in as a user and ready to go and B: I dont try to do anything that requires security.

Vista is freaking overkill in some cases. Joe Shome said on May 12, at pm. This is a totally useless tip! Alexis said on May 23, at pm. Home premium and home basic only have remote assistance. As temporary end run, I commented out one part of source in SDisplay. Please put it up on the web. How can we get around this UAC business? CaraDmoco said on October 9, at pm. This has nothing to do with remote desktop.

Mater said on October 14, at am. Shah said on October 15, at am. Kiran Patel said on November 18, at pm. How do I install Remote Desktop Connection? UserDL said on January 8, at pm. Phil said on January 13, at pm. Hope this helps. Adam said on January 15, at pm. Birdy said on April 10, at pm. Macca said on April 16, at pm. Filipe Fumaux said on May 9, at pm. Wyzerd said on May 24, at pm.

Any of you ever heard of Teamviewer? Thanks, wyz. WhackAttack said on September 15, at am. Just trying to provide remote support for family. Teamviewer is awesome. Brook Niebauer said on September 16, at pm. Robyn said on October 17, at am. Yem said on December 3, at am. MPG said on December 31, at am. Lan said on May 20, at pm. Dan said on June 11, at am. Al Del Vecchio said on August 7, at pm.

VNC is too slow. RDP is the only solution really. Remote Desktop Software said on February 19, at am. Alara said on April 26, at am. RightGuy said on January 18, at pm. The message from Microsoft is very clear.

Rob said on July 11, at am. For the good of humanity please kill yourselves now. John Click said on September 20, at am. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Comment Check the box to consent to your data being stored in line with the guidelines set out in our privacy policy We love comments and welcome thoughtful and civilized discussion.

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Privacy policy. Use these steps when a Remote Desktop client can't connect to a remote desktop but doesn't provide messages or other symptoms that would help identify the cause. Follow this section's instructions carefully. Serious problems can occur if the registry is modified incorrectly. Before you start modifying the registry, back up the registry so you can restore it in case something goes wrong. To check and change the status of the RDP protocol on a remote computer, use a network registry connection:.

To check the group policy configuration on a local computer, open a Command Prompt window as an administrator, and enter the following command:. After this command finishes, open gpresult. To check the Group Policy configuration on a remote computer, the command is almost the same as for a local computer:.

On both the local client computer and the remote target computer, the following services should be running:. You can use the Services MMC snap-in to manage the services locally or remotely. You can also use PowerShell to manage the services locally or remotely if the remote computer is configured to accept remote PowerShell cmdlets. Before you starty modifying the registry, back up the registry so you can restore it in case something goes wrong. For this procedure, use a PowerShell instance that has administrative permissions.

For a local computer, you can also use a command prompt that has administrative permissions. Note: I used Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit for this tutorial, please make sure you understand the security implications of enabling this setting. I will cover more on this topic in future articles. Click on the Orb and right-click on My Computer , select Properties from the drop-down menu. Note: If you receive the warning above when you enable Remote Assistance you may need to configure Windows Firewall to allow Remote Desktop to bypass the firewall, if this is the case follow the instructions below —.