RDC stopped working all of a sudden

[neds87]

Hi,

I had my work PC (XP pro) connected through RDC to my home laptop (Win7 Pro) and it was working perfectly for a couple of days and then just stopped.

I have port forwarded 3389 and have enabled it on my home PC. I have allowed 'remote desktop' on my home PC and still no luck. In services everything that has to do with 'remote' i have started. I cannot see 'terminal services' in services but i have enabled it through CMD 'net start termservice' i think it was. My IP hasn't changed for sure. I have tried disabling the firewall but again no luck.

What could be the problem? I have tried everything for the past couple of days and I'm slowly starting to give up.

Please help!

Thanks in advance.

 

[chev65]

Your A/V software probably created a rule to keep you from accessing the other machine. It might help to disable or check the rules of your A/V software to see if there is a problem.

 

[neds87]

I've tried that already.

I have tried disabling the firewall completely which is integrated in to AVG Internet Security. I Then also disabled the entire antivirus along with the firewall and again no connection.

 

[chev65]

With AVG you usually need to uninstall it completely. No guarantee's on this but AVG causes these types of problems all the time.

 

[neds87]

Well the thing is I had initially allowed it through the AVG firewall and it worked fine, no rules have changed since then i've checked and rechecked. Anyways seems like a dead end, I'll just reinstall my windows. Thanks anyway.

 

[chev65]

Not hardly a dead end, in fact I've seen countless problems fixed by just uninstalling AVG. It's much easier than uninstalling Windows 7 I'd say.