How can i enable two concurrent sessions in windows xp

Everything works fine of course. In windows for example I can have multiple logins from same account i. Do you have any solution on that? After running gpedit. Any advise would be appreciated. When booting the usual starting screen with the dots running from left to right appears.

After that I get either a black screen or a light blue screen with the mouse showing up color depending on log on mode showing users to click on vs. I tried to remove it all rereplace termsrv. Please can anyone help me to get it either working correctly or completely remove it? Thank you in advance!!! The functionality of the manager user tab in taskmanager is the same as the Terminal Service Manager in server.

Hmmm Thinserver XP is having a Christmas sale now. Those still unable to enable RDP might wanna check out their site at Is there a reason for why everything but the place where you make the change setting to 2 not be there. All other setting were there, but just that.

Works like a charm but: — copy the dll to system32 to. I renamed both old dll to bak. Taking over the session of the other users doesnt work here. Like when someone is logged in you usualy can click the user and say take over. In case you need to assist.

I declare what kind of key stroke i have to make to disconnect from them and… nothing. So I installed vnc next. Multiple users under xp, well vnc doesnt see it as a second or third screen. I am using Windows 64 bit s system since the computer that wee arranges use of 8 gb of RAM and I need use all of the memory.

We are many users and wee want to use it all of us at the same time. Thank you very much. Hi Everyone, Got it working for xp 64 bit with instructions. Dear friend, Thank you so much for multiple remote desktop solution. It is great. I can connect to the server remotly but after few minutes and some times few seconds the connection is getting lose and the server is logging off also.

Please advice me what is the problem urgently. Many thanks in addvance, Ali. However, I still get the same response that I got before I made any changes. Few connections in same times, just what i need. Thank you for all people working on this project.

Good bye. But try again…make a system restore to the day before you changed the setting and try again. I my case there was no termsrv. If not, i had a error.

I have tried and it works for Win Xp but I need an urgent solution for windows enterprise edition. Actually i am getting confused,which hack shall i use,currently i have tried the steps given on this url on my laptop. But,when i log on to the laptop machine,RDC gets disconnected. Thank you!! It is working perfectly on tinyxp rev09 It is unfortunatelly not working.. I did everyting but it still needs to log of the sessions on the XP machine… how is this possible? Who can help.

My system is windows xp pro sp3. I have a question as I am pretty new to networking. Will this allow me to have 2 remote c omputers access the host computer at the same time without logging each other off?

I am looking to have 2 computer cash registers run at the same time using a host computers drive that has all the inventory and program so both remotes need to be able to access and run the same program from the host at the same time without logging one or the other of.

Or if this will not work what can i do to do so? A program of some sort? Hi Dude! Pls help me ASAP.. How can i resolve this error? I just tried it once… and resolved my issue.. I am now able to provide any number of remote desktop connections in my office. Worked for me, but had to manually copy the termsrv. XP MCE..

Thanks for this information.. It was indeed a big achievement. However, I was wondering if there was something like this that could be done for Windows 7. Please let me know as I am using Windows7 and would like to have this on my machine..

However since SP3 and other patches were installed it stopped working. Tested it with a VMware copy and it worked…. Its works but just only for 3 maximum RDP conections in a time, how to get more than 3 simultaneously conections? This did not work for me as the termsrv. I have tried 3 different version of this hack from different places and none of them work. All very similar, hack registry, hack gpedit, replace custom termsrv. I am doing this on virtual XP SP2 and I can remote log in before I do the hack afterwards I can not even log into one session, this hack does not work like all the others have tried.

One solution is to use the command runasspc. Got to gpedit. Hi we tried the same but it is not working at all. Get a friend who knows more to help! Great blog!!!! Works fine for me, but the problem I encounter was it takes time before the session loads up. Though there are only two sessions present, I have to wait for about mins.

Any thought of this? Anyone know or might be able to drop me a line? I am thinking it might have to do with xstartup? Fabulous, worked perfectly, the only thing i did different was to also copy the termsrv. The most important for me :. But as soon as I connected the internet, some hidden windows updates even when the auto updates option was off stopped it. Also set Service Terminal Services to Automatic — you may need to manually start it the after rebooting.

I did everything according to the instructions given in here. Thanks again. This worked on win Xp SP3. However, after delete termsrv. This is just stupid…. Awesome post! Thank you very much to provide all steps to install programs. Just my one question to concerning that Know how this will work for Windows Server ? Kiro on February 19, at PM. Matthew on March 26, at PM. Jason Golod on March 27, at AM.

Great solution. Works just as expected! Vchat20 on April 27, at AM. Jason Golod on May 3, at AM. Dexn on May 16, at PM. SelfMan on May 27, at AM. Steve on June 6, at PM. Hendra on June 8, at PM. Mark Horton on June 9, at AM. Horia on June 13, at AM. Dz on June 16, at PM. Tamer on July 2, at AM. Mark on July 5, at PM. Jason Golod on July 5, at PM. Deni on July 13, at AM.

Jason Golod on July 13, at AM. Yes, if you have administrator priviledges. Chev on July 18, at AM. That should do it. Vijay on July 28, at PM. Jason Golod on August 10, at AM. KenCarnivorous on August 15, at PM. File Ver: 5. Wayne on August 17, at AM. Andrew on August 17, at PM. Tobbe on August 24, at PM. Joe on August 27, at AM.

Jason Golod on August 28, at AM. That is why I use it. Don Grybb on August 28, at PM. So far Dell has been no help for the last 4 months. Many Thanks. Sam on August 28, at PM. Will this work with a XP Pro system that is a domain member, or Workgroup member only? China on August 30, at AM. Is it a requirement to have fast user switching enabled? Hamish on September 12, at PM.

Jeremy on September 29, at PM. Daryl on October 3, at AM. Is any one know how to enable 4 — 11 connections simultaneously? David on October 15, at PM. Let me try this …. Jason Golod on October 16, at AM. TeraVilen on October 22, at PM. Followed the instructions … Tried to RDC to no avail. Please advise what I need to do next … Thanks, Teravilen. Dan on October 28, at AM. Above article work perfectly with RDP services.

Mark on November 2, at AM. Has anyone got this to work on a domain computer? It did not work for me the righ DLL is being used, but multiple sessions are not working.

Little Poppet on November 4, at AM. Lewis on November 10, at AM. Any mirror? Drugs on November 16, at AM. Drugs on November 16, at PM. Alex on November 20, at PM. Cliff on November 26, at PM. Also ensure you have fast user switching enabled. With that, this worked for me. Jen on December 11, at PM. Hey Drugs — Any luck with Windows Vista? Chins on December 11, at PM. Hi… When i m trying to connect my machine using RDC from other machine and after that i m disconnecting the session my machine automatically getting shutdown.

Steven on December 22, at PM. This does not work as advertised on December 29, at PM. Chris on December 29, at PM. Dan on January 11, at AM. Any news of a working hack for Vista? Herbert on January 12, at AM. Ramp on February 10, at PM. Steve on February 11, at PM. Macloud on February 16, at AM. Zack on February 16, at AM. This just beta test release by Microsoft in beta sp2.

This doesnt work with home edition. Matr1x on February 19, at AM. This only works on vista business and ultimate as far as i am aware at the moment.

I tried this, but am getting an error message after I log in. Something about GetUser. Christian on February 23, at AM. Thanks so much. Worked flawlessly even with the German XP Professional SP2 Have to work with Windows for the first time in years usually using Linux , and I think something like that just has to work out of the box. Meanwhile I realize why I switched the ship 3 years ago….

David on March 5, at AM. Also, I am a part of a workgroup but not a part of domain. Will that create issues? Pankaj on March 6, at AM. Doug on March 6, at PM. Danka on April 5, at AM. Of corse, with the adequate hungarian settings. Anthony on April 11, at AM. Lee Childress on April 11, at PM. Joaquin Torres on April 11, at PM. Alienovski on April 12, at AM.

Kvron on April 12, at PM. Anthony on April 16, at PM. David on April 18, at PM. Sorry about the typos. Giepie on April 19, at AM. Regards, Giepie. Cory on April 29, at PM. Phil on May 4, at AM. Works great with XP. Anybody tried this with Vista? Todd on May 10, at AM. This would be helpful with my home theater setup. Any ideas how to resolve the local host issue? Maz on May 21, at AM.

Valerie on May 24, at PM. Justin on May 30, at AM. The dll works. The problem arises when it is a member of a domain. I hope I have been of help. Muhil on June 2, at AM. This is for the guys endlessly trying to get the work done. Jurubeba on June 5, at PM. Sharif on June 12, at AM. Just tried it, works great for up to 3 RDC. Thanks for the instruction. Hi folks! Does anyone knows multiple remote desktop sessions solution on Windows Vista?

Colombia on June 29, at PM. Dharmesh Acharya on July 20, at PM. Mattmooo on July 23, at AM. TT on July 29, at PM. Cavagnaro on August 1, at PM. Jamie M. Here are my results: 5 thin clients on mb ram, no problem. Anyway folks, enjoy! Naresh Prajapati on August 25, at AM. Ken on September 19, at AM. Wendra on September 20, at PM.

Brad on September 21, at AM. Harif Kali on October 3, at AM. We have evaluated a few products, including patch and VMWare. Netter on October 3, at PM. Timmy on October 4, at AM. Staal on October 11, at AM. This Is nice way for multiple Remote Destop Connections. Ken on October 23, at AM. Do you have to be using group policy for the multi sessions to work?

Rene Toy on October 23, at AM. Does this work for MCE also? Netter on October 28, at PM. Reix on October 29, at PM. Why I cant see this folder? Ephieste on November 3, at AM. Urgent help please. Netter on November 6, at AM. Netter on November 18, at PM. Hi Paul, You need to click on Disk Drives under the Local Resources tab of your Remote Desktop client software You will then see your local drives appearing on your remote server! James on November 26, at AM. Bhaskar on December 1, at AM. Red Wire on December 6, at AM.

Revised instructions… 1. Netter on December 7, at PM. Zavindur on December 15, at AM. Netter on December 19, at AM. Wow, just been to ThinServer XP thin client software website. They are having Xmas sales now! Farris on December 20, at PM. Syeager on December 21, at PM. Jasper on December 25, at AM. Where is this hack supposed to be done, is it on the local computer or on the remote computer?

Netter on December 25, at PM. Jasper on December 27, at AM. Sam on December 28, at PM. Any ideas? Dan Wooster on December 29, at AM. Erock on January 3, at PM. Netter on January 4, at PM.

Fly on January 10, at AM. Hope someone knows the answer. Paul on January 18, at AM. Netter on February 12, at AM. Erik Kaiser on February 13, at PM. Its win xp sp2 here. I have set all settings now its showing this client might be busy. Katmai on February 20, at AM. Bibsa on February 22, at AM. Arie-lex on February 27, at AM. Zarniwoop on February 29, at PM.

Works like a charm on my up-to-date XP SP2 install. Many thanks. Sathyanarayanan Raghunathan on March 2, at AM. Jason on March 19, at PM. Smarty on March 25, at PM. Netter on April 1, at PM. Smarty, I know a lot of people is looking for 64 bit version including myself.

I will let u know once I found it M, All of these is based on the patch concept. The hacked dll does not resume disconnected state and also is not stable unlike ThinServer Arie-Lex, Thanks for the link. Great article. I wrote so many lines.. Lucio on April 4, at PM. Thanks a lot!!! Fimo on April 6, at PM. Hazy on April 10, at AM. Great Blog!!!

Best tweak I have seen for XP in a while! NItesh on April 28, at AM. Jakub Milata on May 2, at AM. Do you have any experience with SP3? Brian on May 3, at AM. John on May 7, at AM. Your the MAN!!! Anon on May 9, at PM.

John on May 10, at AM. Hey Anon… can you post a link to that dll? Anon on May 10, at PM. Silk Weddng flowers on May 12, at AM. I can confirm that this works a treat with SP3 thanks agian. Kazoo Bruce on May 15, at PM. Very fast, amazing the amount of free processor and memory that is on a typical computer. TomTo on May 22, at PM. K on August 1, at PM. Tihs mod is great and Work perectly as long as you do not forget to create the EnableConcurrentSessions in the registry… ————— Now I have a question… Is it possible to allow the same user to log two or more times?

I am connected as a local user and want to be able to connect with the same account remotely. Or I want to open two sessions. PhoTonic on August 15, at AM. John on August 28, at AM. Is it possible to allow the same user to log two or more times? Like Windows Server I am connected as a local user and want to be able to connect with the same account remotely. Thanks, Luis L. Hener on August 31, at PM. In Windows vista.

How it works? Vikram on September 8, at AM. Ptochos on September 10, at AM. Hey Vikram… You are directiing people to a trojan. I followed a link on your site and got: Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6. Tom on September 25, at AM.

Very nice Jason. Fun to play with and the discussion is not bad either. And congrats on getting married! Hope things are going well. Lucky on September 27, at AM. Joshua Gitlin on September 28, at AM. Netter on October 4, at PM. Jeremy on October 7, at AM. Thanks in advance, Jeremy. Enrico on October 20, at PM. Ranjit on October 22, at AM. So not to worry, this is not a virus of any kind, this DLL file. BooBoss on October 27, at PM. Sandeep on October 31, at AM.

Nikos on November 2, at AM. Pepe on November 19, at AM. HELP In principle it works for my. Several users can RD-connect to this PC and work. Aapmansz on December 12, at AM. Great hack. Limitation is max 3 sessions and Netware send popup from 1 user gets on the screen of all users. Thanx for this hack and keep up the good work! Netter on December 12, at PM. Abe on December 29, at AM. Ali on January 1, at AM. Arjen on January 6, at AM. U told people to try this software for over 10 times here… If this software is so amazing than why do you need to advertise so much???

Have a good day… BTW.. Nice hack. Dave the Troll on January 6, at AM. Raj on January 12, at PM. Can somebody tell me whether it works with the version of windows i have in place? Quick reply is highly expected. Assem on January 21, at AM. You must note two things: 1. After deleting the termsrv. Robi on January 25, at AM. Now i am testing on the the 3th SP3 Xp computer…we will see.

Kims on February 3, at AM. Hi All! I can connect 2 users which is obvious. Terminal server trial has now expired. I am using xp2 on a intel celeron laptop. Kindly help me,also guide me if i am going wrong in doing the configurations.

Shawn on February 16, at PM. This works with user fast switch only. If your XP machine is on a domain this does not work. Just an FYI. Joe on May 15, at AM. Rachel on June 9, at AM. This is irritating and removes much of the productivity that Remote Desktop brings to Windows. A much touted feature in SP2 Service Pack 2 since then removed was the ability to do just this, have a user logged on locally while another connects to the terminal remotely. Microsoft however removed the feature in the final build.

Just rename it to termserv. The termserv. Just replace that file with the corresponding file in the Windows installation disks. Read on to learn how to remove that limitation in Windows XP SP2 A much touted feature in SP2 Service Pack 2 since then removed was the ability to do just this, have a user logged on locally while another connects to the terminal remotely.

To get Concurrent Sessions in Remote Desktop working, follow the steps below exactly : Download the termserv. You have to be registered to see the file Reboot into Safe Mode.

This is necessary to remove Windows File Protection.