How to fix a horribly slow RDP session with Vista

wwright — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 07:06:00 GMT

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.

CodeMonkey<wwright>:IConfused : Remote Desktop

How to fix a horribly slow RDP session with Vista