In this post, I will give you step-by-step guide to make you be able remote desktop concurrently to Windows XP Professional Edition 64-bit with only one user account. It's a little different with my previous
post, where it only be able to do remote desktop concurrently using different user account.
Step 1.
Disable remote desktop.
a. Right-click on My Computer -> Properties -> Remote (uncheck both boxes).
b. Then go to Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services and double click on Terminal Services and change the startup type to disabled.
Step 2.
Get files.
a. Get the files here
Antiwpa-V3.4.6 for X64 and X86.zip (
source)
TS-NoRestr-Patch-x64.rar (
source). If the links don't work the sources will, the site is
AntiWPA and you need to register to download the files.
b. Extract the zip file to a new folder and run AntiWPA3.cmd (just double click) it will apply the patch.
c. Extract the rar to a new folder (single word no spaces [I used "new"] c:\windows\new) in c:\windows double click the TSfix.reg file and click ok.
Step 3.
Get the windows XP 64-bit disk and reboot from disk. Then go to the recovery console and type 1 for C:\WINDOWS
code:
cd system32
copy winlogon.exe winlogon.exe_backup
cd ..
cd new
copy winlogon.exe c:\windows\system32
y
exit
Step 4.
a. When the computer reboots reboot in safemode by hitting F8 at the right time, choose regular safemode.
b. Login as an administrator and make sure that terminal services are still off as set in Step 1.
c. make a backup of c:\windows\system32\termsrv.dll and c:\windows\system32\dllcache\termsrv.dll (dllcache is a hidden folder, so make sure you already change the setting to show hidden/ system files)
d. replace those two files with the termsrv.dll from the rar (which has been extracted to c:\windows\new in Step 2)
e. 'Click Start, then “Run…”, type “gpedit.msc” (without quotes) and press ENTER;
open Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Terminal Services;
double click “Limit number of connections”, choose “Enabled” and set the maximum number of concurrent connections you want to allow'.
reboot to normal.
Step 5.
a. Log on to the normal windows XP 64 bit and enable the remote desktop similar to Step 1
b. Switch the Terminal Services to manual also similar to Step1.
c. Reboot
Step 6.
Try it out, you should be able to have multiple logins using remote desktop to the same system without kicking each other off.
I tried by creating on user account 'testing', and I can make all 10 colleagues in office login using the same user account :)
Please give some comments, or if you have difficulties just let me know, so I can edit the post accordingly. Thanks.