You can install Windows Terminal from the Microsoft Store. If you don't have access to the Microsoft Store, the builds are published on the GitHub releases page. If you install from GitHub, the terminal will not automatically update with new versions. Sep 26, 2017 In my experience with Windows 10 Home after an update pushed out in April of 2017, it appears that you need to upgrade to Windows 10 Pro to acquire a Terminal Service license. If so, how many Terminal Service licenses does Windows 10 Pro allow for vs a server? This video demonstrates how to login to a terminal server with Windows Remote Desktop Client. The Remote Desktop Connection Client is used for logging into a virtual terminal server. Remote Desktop Connection has been included with all Windows versions since Windows XP. It is also available as a download for Mac OSX and Windows 2000 and earlier.
I got up a requirement to setup Windows 10 in a cloud from where we want to have concurrent users on it at the same time. It is an easy step for System Administrator on Windows Server, however, as being the normal operating system, it wasn’t easy to fulfill this requirement on Windows 10.
I googled and tried to come up with a solution. I have seen few tools on the internet too but they are not working properly with the latest Windows update too.
In the end, I manage to get it done and thought to share my step on my blog. Hereby, I modify the termsrv.dll file from the System32 folder to get it done.
I tried RDP Wrapper but it didn’t help for the newer version of Windows 10. So the following solution would be convenient.
Solution:
- First backup the DLL file to be on the safe side and take the ownership and provide full rights of termsrv.dll file for your profile.
- After this, you have to stop Terminal Server before modifying it
- Install any HEX editor tool to modify the DLL file. I have used HxD Hex Editor which is freeware too.
- You have to replace the string and be careful while doing it as you are modifying the system file. Strings are different as per Windows 10 build.
- The current Windows 10 build I am working is 1703 and have modified the following things:
- Once you saved the DLL file and reboot the machine, it will work to have concurrent user sessions.
- However, if your Windows version is different as listed above, then kindly check the listed one
Windows 10 Version 1909
Windows 10 Version 1903 (updated v2)
Windows 10 Version 1809 (updated)
Windows 10 Version 1803
Windows 10 Version 1709
Windows 10 Threshold Wave 2 Update
Windows 10 RTM 2015
Hope this will help you guys too.
Feel free to write the comment if you need any support from my end.
Cheers,
Udhy.
We can start Terminal Services by running the command given below.
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.
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.
How to enable Terminal Services?
Enable Terminal Server Windows 10
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