Comments on: Install and Enable Remote Desktop in Windows XP Home Edition

By: brent mosley

brent mosley — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:03:54 +0000

I had a similar problem where I don’t see the remote tab under MyComputer Properties to allow users to connect remotely to this computer. Any suggestions?

Also seeems like alot of issues with updates. I just completed the steps and hope I don’t have issues.

By: trlkly

trlkly — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 01:38:23 +0000

“Windows XP Home Edition (HE) does not come with or support Remote Desktop, or Terminal Services feature”

Why does everyone keep saying that? I have Windows XP home, which I just installed fresh from the OEM disk, and added all updates. I have Terminal Services running right now.

I’m thinking it got included in one of the Service Packs or updates, and nobody’s bothered to notice.

Now, you are right that Remote Desktop doesn’t exist, so you’re guide isn’t wrong. But that doesn’t mean it couldn’t use a little update in that first sentence.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:22:43 +0000

I can connect to my computer within my home network however how can you connect to it outside your network without knowing the settings which are seen in the remote tab in system?

By: Microsoft Counterfeit Software

Microsoft Counterfeit Software — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:23:40 +0000

CLR ram temp
dump kernel
Run shutdown /s
clr ram
Shutdown
Admin logoff

By: Converting Windows XP Home to Professional WITHOUT re-installing

Converting Windows XP Home to Professional WITHOUT re-installing — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 11:24:16 +0000

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By: vampix

vampix — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:32:10 +0000

I maked all of steps besides this.
Sometimes, it may be useful to patch termsrv.dll with a cracked version which allows multiple RDC sessions and users to fix some problems such as disconnection issue. It’s also good for testing by allowing connect remote desktop to localhost.

But in Properties ii haven’t got tab Remote desktop…How i can connect my Pda to PC?

By: niks

niks — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:22:46 +0000

If you want to go back to xp home from xp pro you can try System restore…it worked for me..and then the WGA software update was not installed.

Also, instead of doing this you can use windows live mesh ….its free and it has remote desktop facility (though not exactly same as regular remote desktop – for example sound does not work).

http://www.mesh.com

By: Kev

Kev — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:03:44 +0000

How do I restrict user who login using rdp? No RDP policies.

By: tEv69

tEv69 — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:01:55 +0000

thanks. this works really well along with the hack for xp Pro saved a lot of bother reinstalling Windows.

By: toni_pham

toni_pham — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 02:02:26 +0000

hi my pals,

I don’t know how to change into the i386 folder extracted by Devcon. Could you, pals, show me how to do it.
best regards

By: Omni

Omni — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:36:07 +0000

Hello,

I just don’t understand this part of the tut:

Open a command prompt window (Cmd), and the change directory into the i386 folder extracted by DevCon. Then run the following command to reinstall rdpdr driver:

devcon.exe -r install %windir%\inf\machine.inf root\rdpdr

Can somebody explain this to me step by step?

Thank you,

Omni

By: emjay

emjay — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:07:29 +0000

Thanks for posting this, saved me a lot of work with installing XP Pro

By: charan

charan — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:18:00 +0000

Wow, it worked. Thank you sooo very much.
DWORD Blank and all that, it wasn’t hard to figure it out. If in doubt right click.
Thanks again.

By: Foster McLane

Foster McLane — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:35 +0000

if the devcon.exe link not working for you use this http://web.archive.org/web/20070403210840/http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/1/f/11f7dd10-272d-4cd2-896f-9ce67f3e0240/devcon.exe

By: Best Remote Software For The Job ~ IT Professionals

Best Remote Software For The Job ~ IT Professionals — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:42:14 +0000

[...] that old installation of XP home that wish to connect to it via RDP, never fear. You can actually tweak your Home install into something that will solve this issue [...]

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:43:57 +0000

I followed the steps but can’t bring my local printer to the computer i am accessing remotly…

The conversion of Home to Pro worked, the installation of devcon.exe worked, and the terminal services is set to “started” (even tho when i clicked on enable_tsxp.bat the cmd window popped up, was blank, than disappeared about 10 seconds later without any text appearing on it). I restarted my computer after every step…

So i can go on remote desktop and but I can’t print on my local printer… help anyone ?

Thanks,
Gabriel