We can start Terminal Services by running the command given below.
On the right hand side, double click Allow log on through Terminal Services or Allow log on through Remote Desktop Services. Click Add User or Group and enter Remote Desktop Users. Click Ok and Ok again to dismiss both dialog boxes. Restart your PC, wait for a few minutes and try to reconnect using Jump. Additional references: Microsoft KB886620.
If the service is already running you will get the message ‘The requested service has already been started.‘
Sometimes you may get an error that the service could not be started.
- A multiuser, thin client environment for Windows servers from Microsoft. Introduced in Windows NT 4.0 in 1996, as of the 2009 launch of Windows Server 2008 R2, Terminal Services became part of.
- Prerequesites: Windows 10 Pro Build 1511 (Clean Install) Hardware: Dell Latitude E5570. Intel Core i5-6300U @ 2.40GHz. I have seen several posts where if the Remote Desktop Settings' 'Allow remote connections to this computer' is grayed-out, you need to set the 'Allow users to connect using Terminal Services' GPO to 'Not Configured.'
- Older Windows 10 versions-Windows 10 x64 v1909 - November 2019 Update. After this update termsrv.dll is upgraded to version 10.0.18362.657. To get back concurrent remote desktop connections, make the following changes: Find: 39 81 3C 06 00 00 0F 84 5D 61 01 00. Replace with: B8 00 01 00 00 89 81 38 06 00 00 90. The patched version can be.
This happens when Terminal Services is disabled through registry hack. You can fix this by running the below registry change command.
You need to reboot the computer for the changes to take effect. After reboot terminal services starts automatically or you can start the service using net start command as mentioned above.
How to stop Terminal Services?
Terminal Services can’t be stopped like other services. You get the below error when you attempt the same.
How to restart Terminal services?
Since Terminal Services can’t be stopped there is no straightforward way we can do this. Microsoft says this is by design. But in some cases restarting terminal services could be possible by killing the svchost process that runs the terminal services.We can use tasklist and taskkill commands for this.
First get the process id of the terminal services process
Check if Terminal services is the only service running in this svchost. If the svchost is shared with other services then you can stop reading further. Restarting terminal services is not possible on your machine.
On my system I have got the following output.
How to disable Terminal Services?
We can run the below command to disable terminal services.
Windows 10 Terminal Services Client
How to enable Terminal Services?
Terminal Services On Windows 10
Terminal Services Configuration Win 10
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