Comments on: Turn on Remote Desktop in Windows 7 or Vista

By: Frank

Frank — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:58:18 +0000

I got a new HP laptop 2 months ago running vista home premium 64 bit and wanted to start using remote desktop to get to files on on my desktop computer (win xp home edition sp3). When I try to get to the window in the third screen shot, there is no bottom portion to select options for remote desktop. There is only the section for remote assistance. anything I can do to resolve this?

By: Chad

Chad — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:38:11 +0000

I’m trying to access our remote server at work from my home PC which has Windows Vista. I know the problem is with my home PC because I’ve accessed my work computer from a different computer that had an earlier Windows Version and it worked just fine. Here’s what I’ve done…. Start/All Programs/Accessories/Remote Login/ (enter the login name and my user name. I then get a windows security window which asks for my user name and password again. I enter them and get nowhere…. So darn frustrating…

By: wevenhuis

wevenhuis — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 20:55:24 +0000

If so many people want remote desktop connection with VISTA home, I wonder why it isn’t part of this system. Could the How-to-Geek Remote Desktop Client be a working solution for VISTA Home edition?

By: justin

justin — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 04:04:07 +0000

Just use “Windows Live Messenger”!!!
It Works Great and its very very easy!!!

By: LM

LM — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:59:28 +0000

Mal, I tried the hack for Vista Premium but I can’t get it to work. I’m trying to log in from an XP machine on the same network.
After running Premium.bat all looks good but after the line “Checking if service is listening on port 3389 I get the message “Service is not listening”.
I did add the exception to windows firewall.
I’m running AVG Anti Virus but I see nothing in there about unblocking port 3389. Could that be the problem? Any other ideas?

By: hariqi

hariqi — Tue, 26 May 2009 12:27:56 +0000

please any one can help me for my problem? I want to connect from my laptop with Vista version to another computer with xp version. please inform me the correct way to do that. thanks

By: Horndog

Horndog — Sat, 09 May 2009 01:25:46 +0000

Thanks to Dave. I tried UltraVNC and it allows me to RDC from my XP Pro PC to my Vista Home Premium PC. Woo-hoo!

By: Nik

Nik — Wed, 06 May 2009 20:25:37 +0000

I want to connect from one Vista Home to another Vista home remotely.

Is that possible and all i need is the ip address of each computer or do i need someone on the other end to press yes??

By: Bass747

Bass747 — Fri, 01 May 2009 19:36:54 +0000

Hi, I am at school and i want to set up remote desktop connection to my pc at home (they both run vista home premium) and I want to be able to connect to my PC at home to use it’s internet connection as it doesn’t block stuff. I spoke to my friend who told me that i need to get an netgear router as i can then have a fixxed IP adress. Then i need to use something with a dynamic dns.

Please could you give me some help on this item.

Kit Cowan

By: Xcalibur

Xcalibur — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:23:07 +0000

bugger… the above should read:

WANIP:7777 to access 192.168.1.3
WANIP:7778 to access 192.168.1.4

etc, etc

It seems this forum parses as XML tags which i didnt realise