Enabling Remote Desktop on Windows7

Question

Is there a way to enable Remote Desktop on a machine, remotely from another machine in the same network(with admin privileges on both machines of course).

Answer 1

If your network is not setup with multiple group policies you should be able to remote connect to the registry of the computer you want to reach with the registry editor on your workstation. Navigate to

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server

Under the Terminal Server key, you'll find a REG_DWORD value named fDenyTSConnection. Double-click on that value to open the Edit DWORD Value box and change the value data from 1 (Remote Desktop disabled) to 0 (Remote Desktop enabled)

Reference: http://oreilly.com/windows/archive/server-hacks-remote-desktop.html