Enable Remote desktop in Vista Home Premium and Concurrent Sessions

11. July 2007

Remote desktop is only supported in Windows Vista Buisness and Windows Ultimate, so if you fx have a Windows Vista Home Premium you can't connect to it with the Remote Desktop Connection.

To enable remote desktop follow the guid:

Steps to Add Remote Desktop to Vista Home Premium:

  1. Download termsvr.zip here
  2. Extract Termsvr.zip to a temp directory
  3. Start "Command Prompt" in Administrator mode (Run As Administrator)
  4. Run the corresponding batch file for your Vista edition
  5. Allow TCP Port 3389 on Windows Firewall or any other firewall product.
  6. Done

 

You can also enable the Concurrent Sessions in Vista, this means that you can connect to the computer at the same time as an other user is using the computer. Klik here

Windows Vista