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Title: Enable, Disable Remote Desktop Connection in Windows 10/8.1
Post by: javajolt on May 20, 2017, 08:30:39 PM
The Remote Desktop Protocol in Windows provides a graphical interface to the user, when he connects his or her computer to another computer over a network connection, using the Remote Desktop Connection client software. At the same time, the other computer must be running the Remote Desktop Services server software.
Open System Properties box via the Control Panel. Or else, open a command prompt window, type SystemPropertiesRemote.exe and hit Enter to open the Remote tab of the System Properties box.
Under Remote Desktop, you will see three options:
♦ Don’t allow remote connections to this computer
♦ Allow remote connections to this computer.
Additionally, you will also see the following option:
♦ Allow connections only from computers running Remote Desktop with Network Level Authentication (recommended).
Select the desired option and click on Apply.
To enable Remote Desktop Connection select Allow remote connections to this computer. Moreover, it is recommended that you Allow connections only from computers running Remote Desktop with Network Level Authentication only.
To disable Remote Desktop Connection select Don’t allow remote connections to this computer.
If you do not wish to share your administrator credentials with others, click Select Users to add users.
Once this is done, you or the users will now be able to connect using the Remote Desktop Connection to your computer.
You can see here, all the Command line parameters for Remote Desktop Connection.
Click ▼ the button below to view
Instead of starting Remote Desktop Connection from the Start menu, Windows 7 allows you to start it from the search box, from the Run dialog box, or from a command line. With these methods, you can use additional command line parameters to control how Remote Desktop Connection looks or behaves.
To start Remote Desktop from the Run dialog box:
1. Click the Start button, click All Programs, click Accessories and then click Run.
2. In the search box, type mstsc.
3. Give a space, followed by any additional parameters that you want to use.
/v: Specifies the remote computer that you want to connect to.
/admin - Is used for administration of a Remote Desktop Session Host server. In this version of Remote Desktop Connection, if the Remote Desktop Session Host role service is installed on the remote computer, running mstsc /admin will do the following (for the current connection only):
/admin also does the following on connections to Windows Server 2008 R2 with the RD Session Host role service installed:
• Disables Plug and Play device redirection for this connection only.
• Changes the remote session theme to Windows Classic View (if it’s available) for this connection only.
To connect to a remote computer with the RD Session Host role service installed, follow these steps:
• Open Command Prompt.
• Type mstsc /v:server /admin.
/f - Starts Remote Desktop Connection in full-screen mode.
/w: Specifies the width of the Remote Desktop Connection window.
/h: Specifies the height of the Remote Desktop window.
/public - Runs Remote Desktop Connection in public mode.
/span - Matches the remote desktop width and height with the local virtual desktop, spanning across multiple monitors if necessary. To span across monitors, the monitors must be arranged to form a rectangle.
/multimon - Configures the Remote Desktop session monitor layout to be identical to the current client-side configuration.
/edit "connection file" Opens the specified .rdp connection file for editing.
/migrate - Migrates older connection files that were created with Client Connection Manager to new .rdp connection files.