I got up a requirement to setup Windows 10 in a cloud from where we want to have concurrent users on it at the same time. It is an easy step for System Administrator on Windows Server, however, as being the normal operating system, it wasn’t easy to fulfill this requirement on Windows 10.

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I googled and tried to come up with a solution. I have seen few tools on the internet too but they are not working properly with the latest Windows update too.

Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7, Vista, XP, Windows Embedded, Mac OS X 10.6 and newer, Linux, Windows Server 2019, 2016, 2012 / 2012 R2, 2008 / 2008 R2, 2003 / 2003 R2 License expired? Request a free trial license extension in case you need more time to evaluate our product. In my experience with Windows 10 Home after an update pushed out in April of 2017, it appears that you need to upgrade to Windows 10 Pro to acquire a Terminal Service license. If so, how many Terminal Service licenses does Windows 10 Pro allow for vs a server? On the right hand side, double click Allow log on through Terminal Services or Allow log on through Remote Desktop Services. Click Add User or Group and enter Remote Desktop Users. Click Ok and Ok again to dismiss both dialog boxes. Restart your PC, wait for a few minutes and try to reconnect using Jump. Additional references: Microsoft KB886620.

In the end, I manage to get it done and thought to share my step on my blog. Hereby, I modify the termsrv.dll file from the System32 folder to get it done.

I tried RDP Wrapper but it didn’t help for the newer version of Windows 10. So the following solution would be convenient.

Solution:

• First backup the DLL file to be on the safe side and take the ownership and provide full rights of termsrv.dll file for your profile.

• After this, you have to stop Terminal Server before modifying it

• Install any HEX editor tool to modify the DLL file. I have used HxD Hex Editor which is freeware too.
• You have to replace the string and be careful while doing it as you are modifying the system file. Strings are different as per Windows 10 build.
• The current Windows 10 build I am working is 1703 and have modified the following things:

• Once you saved the DLL file and reboot the machine, it will work to have concurrent user sessions.
• However, if your Windows version is different as listed above, then kindly check the listed one

Windows 10 Version 1909

Windows 10 Version 1903 (updated v2)

Terminal Services Windows 10

Windows 10 Version 1809 (updated)

Windows 10 Version 1803

Windows 10 Version 1709

Windows 10 Threshold Wave 2 Update

Windows 10 RTM 2015

Hope this will help you guys too.

Feel free to write the comment if you need any support from my end.

Cheers,

Udhy.

We can start Terminal Services by running the command given below.

If the service is already running you will get the message ‘The requested service has already been started.‘
Sometimes you may get an error that the service could not be started.

This happens when Terminal Services is disabled through registry hack. You can fix this by running the below registry change command.

You need to reboot the computer for the changes to take effect. After reboot terminal services starts automatically or you can start the service using net start command as mentioned above.

How to stop Terminal Services?

Terminal Services can’t be stopped like other services. You get the below error when you attempt the same.

How to restart Terminal services?

Since Terminal Services can’t be stopped there is no straightforward way we can do this. Microsoft says this is by design. But in some cases restarting terminal services could be possible by killing the svchost process that runs the terminal services.We can use tasklist and taskkill commands for this.

First get the process id of the terminal services process

Check if Terminal services is the only service running in this svchost. If the svchost is shared with other services then you can stop reading further. Restarting terminal services is not possible on your machine.

On my system I have got the following output.

How to disable Terminal Services?

We can run the below command to disable terminal services.

How to enable Terminal Services?

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