Enabling Remote Desktop in Windows Vista

With Remote Desktop Connection feature of Windows Vista, you can access a computer running Windows from another computer running Windows that is connected to the same network or to the Internet. However Remote Desktop is disabled by default in Windows Vista, so the first step is to activate it on the system you want to control. This blog will be very helpful in solving this issue. Let’s explore on enabling Remote Desktop in Windows Vista on this article.

OK... Let’s start! Here is how you can do it:

1) Go to Start, right click Computer and then click on Properties.



2) The computer properties window will appear, and then you click on Remote settings.

Note: You can also open this window by going to Control Panel -> System.

3) Well in order to enable the connection you need windows vista support on remote desktop connection.For this go to Remote tab > System properties window> Allow connections. Other then this you can also, Select Users button to choose the users that can connect to this computer remotely. Finally, click Apply and OK button.



Note: It is important here to note that computers running Remote Desktop with Network Level Authentication (more secure) option are accessible remotely. If you want to check, just open the client and click on upper left corner icon to open the about window, you will then find out whether it’s supported.



Note: By default the existing user id that you used to enable this Remote Desktop will be authorized to connect remotely. In this case, Ivan already has access as my current logged on user id is Ivan. You can click Add... to add other users.

Moreover the Remote Desktop must be enabled as exception on Windows Firewall! If not the traffic will be dropped by this firewall.In that case will be required to troubleshoot vista.




In addition to this also make sure Block all incoming connections check box is cleared! If it’s check, then no remote connection can be made from other computers.

Well this should work for both Windows 7 and Windows XP as well.