Annoying RDC 6.0 Problem

Using Vista? Hate the annoying challenge/licensing message each time that you try to connect to another box when you use RDC? Here’s the fix. Regedit:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Terminal Server Client

Add the following DWORD Value: AuthenticationLevelOverride
Set the hexidecimal value to 0 (zero).

No longer will you be interrupted when you try to connect to another machine.

Another annoying thing when connecting with RDC 6: the awaiting system attempts to verify your credential with [ip address]/username and it fails, of course. The fix for this is to edit the credentials and write in a new credential as:

[domain]\user
[password]

So: MYDOMAIN\username, for example. You’ll find that the RDC dialog will actually switch domain context when you express the username in this way. Jesh!

And finally, after you do all of this, you can be as productive as you were with RDC 5….

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