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The display on my PC stopped working and I really need to use this PC. How can I enable remote desktop connection "blindly" (via entering commands on the command line)? It's my own PC and I have Dropbox installed on it.
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The display on my PC stopped working and I really need to use this PC. How can I enable remote desktop connection "blindly" (via entering commands on the command line)? It's my own PC and I have Dropbox installed on it.
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This might help. Good luck typing all of it in correctly with no screen.
Based on http://www.windows-commandline.com/enable-remote-desktop-command-line/
cmd
and hit Enterreg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server" /v fDenyTSConnections /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f
shutdowm /r /t 5
and hit Enter to reboot the PC in 5 secondsThat assumes you have the UAC disabled. If you do not, then you've got a bit more keyboard mastery to do.
You will need to launch Command Prompt as an administrator first. To do that with only a keyboard try this:
command
and wait a few seconds to make sure your Start Menu has returned "Command Prompt" as its search result (slower computers can sometimes take a bit to search the Start Menu)You should now have an administrator Command Prompt open. Now proceed with the first set of steps to add the registry key.
Alternatively if you have your file system memorized you could copy/paste those commands into notepad, save it as "something.bat" and then try to blindly cd
into your dropbox dir and run the bat file. Might be easier than typing all of that out. If you go the batch file route you will still need to follow the above steps to get a administrator Command Prompt open unless your UAC is disabled.
3If you have a second computer running windows, you can do all of this remotely. To modify another computer's registry: Start -> Run -> Regedit -> File -> Connect Network Registry. After making registry changes, you can then run shutdown remotely as well: shutdown /r /t 5 /m \computername – None – 2014-12-27T19:03:30.110
Can you remotely connect to the computer's registry from another machine on your network? – Kinnectus – 2014-12-27T10:01:19.877
Do you have a spare monitor (if "display"="monitor"), or another PC you can swap the hard drive into (if it's not the monitor)? That would probably be easier. – user253751 – 2014-12-27T10:54:20.647
Try using a TV and an old analog S-Video or composite/RCA connector if your graphics card has them. – None – 2014-12-27T11:47:23.543
2Are we supposed to assume Windows? – jamesdlin – 2014-12-27T17:57:11.543