Windows 7 Remote Desktop Keeps Reappearing

Kari's post led me to the answer.

I use XP Mode to run my 1991 DOS genealogy program (a specialized database).

I have never updated my genealogy software (have tried several windows genealogy programs).
Some of the windows programs can migrate my data, but the results are far from adequate,
so another 5000 (FIVE THOUSAND) hours would be necessary to clean it up.
I have many tens of thousands of people in this database, along with lots of stats and also text files associated with many of them.

ANYWAY, I had never noticed before the correlation between using XP Mode and Remote Desktop appearing in in the CCleaner list.
Perhaps it's been in the CCleaner list for quite a while, but I noticed it only recently.

SEVERAL times now, I have tried the following:
1) Run CCleaner
2) Open XP Mode
3) Run CCleaner with XP Mode running -- NO Remote Desktop on CCleaner list.
4) Close XP Mode
5) Run CCleaner -- There's Remote Desktop, always

Hence, I believe that I had no problem with intruders, just with understanding.

Thanks for the help, guys.

jackbn said:

And here is one of the Remote Desktop settings.
I had set it to disabled hours ago, but this is how it looks now, just after running the CCleaner I posted.

The other three items I have been setting are immediatelly above the window. The window is for the middle one. The other two remain disabled, but Remote Desktop just ran minutes ago anyway.

So, it looks like W7's XP Mode app is changing that disabled service. You could test that and let us know.

Also, I'm curious to know what you see in the Event logs. Does it show you the XP computer name like a normal RDC connection?

@Kari,
Thanks for posting the solution. It is always fun to learn something. Your rep has been added to

Ztruker said:

Sorry, that was a response to this post: Windows 7 Remote Desktop Keeps Reappearing

Maybe I should have quoted it.

I made a bigger (hopefully better) video for this post:
Windows 7 Remote Desktop Keeps Reappearing
Try watching it at 720p and full screened.

If you still cannot get it to work, then please...
...RDC to the computer of interest
...open task manager on the remote computer
...add the Session ID column to task manager on the remote computer
...take note of the session number

...place the batch file on the desktop of the remote computer
(tscon.exe 1 /dest:console)
...open that batch file in notepad
...replace the 1 with the session number noted above

...add pause as the last line of the batch file
(so that you can see any errors)
...save the batch file.

Before you run that batch file on the remote computer, please grab a screenshot that shows the batch file in notepad and task manager that shows the Session ID column.

Run the the batch file as admin.

The end result should be that you are disconnected from the remote computer and the remote computer is left logged on (not locked). The user that is logged on to the remote computer will be the one that you used during the RDC session.

If you are not seeing the expected results, then we might need to see what version of RDP you have on both boxes.

UsernameIssues said:

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If you still cannot get it to work, then please...
...RDC to the computer of interest
...open task manager on the remote computer
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Ztruker said:

I connect from Win 8 to the Win 7 system via RDT.

This is Task Manager on WIn 8
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You should be getting the session ID via task manager on the remote system; in your case, the W7 box.

You should be running the batch file on the remote system.

Error code 7045 is what you would get if you ran the batch file on the local Win 8 computer.