Configuring RDP Remote Desktop on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8

For configuring RDP Remote Desktop on Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8 follow the following steps.

1. Make sure your windows operating system edition has RDP server functionality. ( to check it click the link Availability of RDP server functionality in windows)
2. Open Control Panel

Windows 8 Users:- press win+x, which will open a menu, select control panel in that menu.

Windows 7 and Vista users:- click start button then click control panel

3. Enable Remote Desktop

In control panel click system and security => system. In the left pane click the remote settings, the Xtralogic RDP supports Network level authentication (NLA), so you can choose the “Allow connections only from computers running Remote Desktop with Network level authentication ( more secure)” option. Alternatively if you planto access this computer with legacy RDP clients without NLA support, you can select the other less secure  allow option. (Image shown below)

4. Grant the user account remote access.

A user account that will be used to connect to Remote Desktop has to be allowed to do that. If a user

account is a member of administrator’s group then it is already allowed to connect and you can skip this step. Otherwise click select users button and then click Add button. (Image is shown below)

Enter a user name and click ok button. (Image is shown below)

 

Click ok button (Image is shown below)

 

5. Make sure the account is password protected.

The user account has to be password protected in order to be able to access Remote Desktop. To verify in control panel go to User accounts and family safety and then click User accounts.

Windows 8 Users:- Make sure there is password protected label next to the account icon. If the account is not password protected then go to manage another account, click on the account and then go to create password.

Windows 7 and Vista Users:- Go to add or remove user account (As shown in Image below)

 

Click on the user name. If you see create password in the option list, it means that account does not have password. Click create password and follow instruction to create a password. (As shown in the image below)

 

After following the instruction your RDP Remote Desktop will be configured.