Microsoft Remote Desktop It allows us to connect and control the computer from any location from another device. This is something very comfortable and useful; Imagine that we forgot a save file on our PC. How do we fix it? We connect and upload it to the cloud Ready! To make it more comfortable or safer (depending on our needs) to connect to our PC remotely, we can enable either disable the apply for always the password on the Connection of the remote Desktop How? We will tell you next.
How to enable or disable Always prompt for password on remote desktop connection
For this we will have to use the Windows Registry Editor. With this in mind, we recommend backing up or creating a system restore point as a precaution.
- We start by pressing Windows + R to open the “Run” dialog box.
- Next, we will have to type “regedit” without the quotes and press “Enter” to access the Registry Editor.
- Once we are in the Registry Editor, we are going to have to navigate to the following path via the left sidebar.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREPoliciesMicrosoftWindows NTTerminal Services
- In the location, we go to the panel on the right and right-click on a blank space and choose New > DWORD (32-bit) Value so that we can create a registry key and we will change its name to fPromptForPassword.
- Now we are going to double-click the new entry, so we can edit its properties.
- We add 1 to enable or 0 to disable, depending on our needs.
- To finish, we click OK, exit the registry and restart the computer.
Alternatively, we can automatically enable the PromptForPassword key in the registry:
- Press Start and type “Notepad”, then press “Enter”.
- We copy and paste the following code.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREPoliciesMicrosoftWindows NTTerminal Services]
“fPromptForPassword”=-dword:00000001
- Next, we will click on File at the top left of the window and select Save As.
- We will choose the location (the best is on the desktop).
- We are going to add a name, it can be any, the important thing is that the extension is .reg
- For this we will have to choose All files in the Type drop-down list.
- Once it is saved, we go to the location where we left the file and we will double click on it.
- The UAC message will appear where we will have to click on “Yes”.
- We restart the PC and that’s it.
In the same way we can disable automatically, for that we will follow the steps mentioned above, only we will use the following code:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREPoliciesMicrosoftWindows NTTerminal Services]
“fPromptForPassword”=-
As you can see, it is something extremely simple that takes just a few minutes.