Remote Desktop Connection Trick

Normally, my PC at work is always on and I connect to it via VPN even I'm at home. However, I can't use remote desktop client to control my PC at home recently.

After authenticate with the VPN server successfully, a "black" screen come out if I try to connect to my work PC and then an error message will appear:

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Fatal Error (Error Code: 5)
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The session will be disconnected. Your computer may be low on memory.
After closing some applications, try to reconnect the session.

I have no idea what's happened and I try to close as many program/services as I can before I leave work. I also report this problem to a technical service IT Pro colleague and he asked me to wait for some more time as bandwidth maybe the cause of problem... well, I wait until the error message come out and... guess what? I found this trick tonight and it helps me a lot! (without solving the root of problem though)



Colt Kwong

1 Comment

  • Recently I experienced the same problem (RDC Fatal Error Code 5) with a connection (home -> work) that worked fine for more than a year, and suddenly it dropped dead (oct 2008). Exactly the same symptoms as Colt described.
    I can add that the problem did not occur when using RDC form the same client pc to the same server with with a different internet provider.

    Don't know what causes the problem, but the trick worked fine for me also. Thanks.
    Alex Mulder

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