Tuesday, September 15, 2015

RDP and autologin - disconnect every 2 minutes

I discovered something that annoying about RDP... I was getting dropped from RDP every 2 minutes.  After looking around, I discovered some information that it was related to the fact that autologon was configured on the remote machine.

In essence, as I understand it, after 2 minutes Windows would attempt to ensure that the default user was logged in.  For some reason this forces the RDP to get logged out (check the event viewer).

SOLUTION: disable autologon.

ANOTHER SOLUTION:  This seemed to work.  Delete the key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\ForceAutoLogon

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