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What do you do when TeamViewer crashes, VNC is not installed and the domain based Windows PC you need to manage is not running Remote Desktop Services (RDP) in a foreign office outside local office hours?

By Johan van Soest.

Published : 2015-09-01.

Last updated : 2017-05-02.

Try this article by Anthony Eden about remotely enabling Remote Desktop in Windows 7. It assumes you are a domain administrator and the target pc is in your network. The article provides the following steps to open the PC closed as an Oyster:

Open ports in the Windows firewall
Start the Remote Registry service
Change a registry setting to enable Remote Desktop
Start the Remote Desktop service

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