How to fix a horribly slow RDP session with Vista

 More Windows Vista Goodness!

So I am trying to work on my latest LINQ project using SQL2005 and the .NET 3.5 framework (feeling uber-geekish) and I have a test machine for it running Windows Server 2003 that I thought I would just RDP into it but the performance was wretched. So of course I dorked around with all the RDP settings I could find and nothing worked. If I used another workstation with good ol Windows XP on it, it was fine. So after a bunch of googling I came across a post that had the fix. (Thanks to zekefive whoever you are!)

1) create a shortcut to the cmd.exe
2) give the shortcut privileges to run as admin
3) when you click the shortcut, and you get your cmd prompt type


netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled



Hope this works for you like it did for me.

Published Friday, June 08, 2007 3:06 AM by wwright
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Thursday, June 14, 2007 2:56 PM by Chris Faist

# re: How to fix a horribly slow RDP session with Vista

Worked great. Thanks. C
Thursday, June 14, 2007 6:52 PM by Chris Faist

# re: How to fix a horribly slow RDP session with Vista

FYI - As a side note, it also seems to have drastically improved performance of Outlook/Exchange 2007, especially browsing public folders. TY
Wednesday, December 05, 2007 2:18 PM by mg

# re: How to fix a horribly slow RDP session with Vista

Thank you very much.

It worked!!!

Monday, March 31, 2008 2:41 PM by Byronis of South Africa

# re: How to fix a horribly slow RDP session with Vista

Found your post on GOOGLE...

after reading the comments by others, I thought I'd give is a bang... its only Vista, couldnt get any worse...

Ran fix>opened new RDPs session...

performace as God intened it!

Thanks!

Thursday, August 07, 2008 5:47 AM by nas

# re: How to fix a horribly slow RDP session with Vista

ya this has been floating around for awhile now this fix, thx.

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