How to Enable Concurrent Sessions for Remote Desktop in Windows 7 RTM

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In past we had posted hack to enable Multiple users access (Concurrent sessions) for Remote desktop on Windows 7 Beta. For those who don’t know what’s a Concurrent session for Remote Desktop, with remote desktop you can connect to windows computer remotely however in Windows 7 there is restriction and only one user at a time can connect to Windows 7 Computer via remote desktop.

Unfortunately that hack is not compatible with latest Windows 7 RTM Build.  But don’t worry we have got solution to enable Concurrent Session for Remote desktop on final Windows 7 Build thanks to missingremote.com.

Follow below instructions to enable Concurrent Sessions in Windows 7 RTM

How to Enable Concurrent Sessions for Windows 7 RTM

1. Download Concurrent Sessions enabler file

2. Once downloaded, extract the files into a directory (for the purposes of this guide, it will be assumed that the files have been extracted to the folder C:\Win7RDP )

3. Open Windows Explorer to the above folder

4. Right Click on “install.cmd” and select “Run as Administrator”

5. Wait for the script to run entirely. At the end, you should see something similar to the below…

Concurrent Sessions of Remote Desktop

That’s it.

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Reader Comments

I have tried this on W7 Ultimate RTM (both 32bit and 64bit) and neither allows me concurrent sessions in the same user name. As I understand it, that is the exact purpose of this ‘hack’, right?

Written By John L. Galt
on September 19th, 2009

John, by default, install.cmd allows for concurrent sessions of different users, not the same. There are 2 command line parameters though. The following would allow for concurrent sessions using the same user:

install.cmd multi

Type “install.cmd help” to see all the parameters.

Written By Diego Vilar
on September 21st, 2009

cant get the multi user working on the same log-in when using the multi param…

Written By dan
on October 15th, 2009

Worked perfect! Thanks a lot!

Written By Jairo
on November 6th, 2009

Works.

In order to use the same user twice set fSingleSessionPerUser in /HKLM/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/Microsoft/Terminal Server to 0.

Written By Stefan
on November 7th, 2009

That’s what “multi” does, Stefan. Dan, did you manage to make it work?

Written By DIEGO VILAR
on November 7th, 2009

Do you guys know if this will work on WIN7 (Ultimate Home)with Media Center that has a Media Center Extender connected to it?
The Extender operates with a kind of remote desktop user, and when I had XP running I tried a similar script (for XP) that messed up my registry so the extender couldn’t connect anymore. Only a fresh OS install cleared that.

Written By Phil
on November 15th, 2009

Should work, Phil. The fix works by altering a dll and registry keys so the remote desktop server allows/disallows those scenarios, indifferent to the client.

Written By Diego Vilar
on November 16th, 2009

Does anyone know if it works with Windows 7 Final/GA versions (which are sold)?

Written By fugger
on November 19th, 2009

Should work, Fugger, since the version being sold is the RTM one (Ready To Manufacture).

Written By Diego Vilar
on November 20th, 2009

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