How to Enable Remote Desktop Remotely on XP?

The following procedures assume that you have administrator rights on the target machine.

1. Run Regedit
2. Select File Connect Network Registry
3. Enter the name of the remote computer and click OK
4. At the bottom of the registry tree you will see two hives appear for the remote machine: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and HKEY_USERS
5. Navigate to HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server
6. Double-click fDenyTSConnections in the right-hand pane and change the value from 1 to 0

I've noticed that these steps do not work on some Windows XP computers. It turns out that you need to set two registry keys:

• HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Terminal Services\fDenyTSConnections should be changed from 1 to 0 (zero)
• HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\fDenyTSConnections should be changed from 1 to 0 (zero)

Good Luck,