Microsoft Windows allows the users to connect to the desktop, remotely. But, you need to enable the option to connect to the desktop remotely. Through this article, we are going to discuss the steps required to enable to connect to the desktop, remotely.
This article applies to:
- Windows 7 Operating System
- Windows 8 Operating System
Step 1. Right-click on the Computer icon. Windows will open a pop-up menu.
Step 2. Select Properties menu item from the pop-up menu. Windows will display the “Control Panel – System” window.
Step 3. Click on the Remote settings item from the right-side pane. Windows will display the “System Properties” dialog.
Step 4. To allow to connect the desktop remotely:
- Select either “Allow connections from computers running any version of Remote Desktop (less secure)” OR “Allow connections only from computers running Remote Desktop with Network Level Authentication (more secure)” option. When you select either of these options and your computer is set up to go to sleep when not in use; Windows will display a warning message. You can avoid the warning or you can follow the suggested action.
- If you don’t want to allow to connect to your PC remotely, select “Don’t allow connections to this computer”.
Step 5. Click on the OK button to apply your changes.
Follow the below steps, ONLY if you made changes to allow to connect to your PC remotely in the above steps. These steps are to attempt to connect to your desktop remotely. So, you need to perform these steps on another desktop from where you want to connect remotely to your desktop.
Step 6. Open the “Remote Desktop Connection” application.
Windows 7 users follow below steps
Step 6.1. Now click on Start button. Windows 7 will display the Start menu.
Step 6.2. From Start menu, select Run… item. Windows will display the Run dialog.
Step 6.3. Type mstsc in Run dialog and click on OK button. Windows will open “Remote Desktop Connection” dialog.
Windows 8 users follow the below steps
Step 6.1. Check this article to open “Remote Desktop Connection” application.
Step 7. Enter the full name of the desktop you want to connect to; into the Computer: field.
Step 8. Click on Connect button to connect to the desktop.
If anything went wrong Windows will display an error message; otherwise, it will remotely connect to the desktop.
🙂 Sahida