Enable Remote Desktop Remotely with Remote Registry

Ever forget to enable remote desktop on a server, or client machine and think you have to get up and go physically visit the machine in order to enable remote desktop so you can connect remotely and use that machine? well no more! (Unless the firewall is enabled… then your just S.O.L)

You can enable Remote Desktop from the registry of any windows XP/2003 machine your currently sitting at!

Just open run and enter “regedit”

Then go File, and click “Connect Network Registry…”
enter the IP, NetBIOS name or FQDN and click OK
Now you will notice a new node in the registry editor of the remote machine.

Navigate to the registy key “HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server”
Change the Dword “fDenyTSConnection” from 1 to 0

0 = remote desktop is enabled
1 = remote desktop is disabled

Hope this helps!