In today’s tutorial, we will learn “How to Fix Remote Desktop Connection Not Working on Windows 10?”. Remote Desktop Protocol is a proprietary protocol developed by Microsoft which provides a user with a graphical interface to connect to another computer over a network connection. The user employs RDP client software for this purpose, while the other computer must run RDP server software.
There could be many reasons for failing to connect to a remote desktop – like expired certificates, blocked firewalls, issues on the client – the list goes on. Here we’ll look at how to fix one common cause of insufficient permissions, which is blocked firewalls.
Fix Remote Desktop Connection
- To do this, let’s open Windows Defender Firewall.
- At first, the Open the Run command
- Hold down the Windows key and then press R on your keyboard.
- The Runs window is immediately displayed in the lower-left corner of the screen.
- Now type “control firewall.cpl” and press Enter.
- It will open Windows Defender Firewall Console.
- Now click the “allow an app or feature through windows defender firewall” options.
- Then click on the Change settings Option.
- Now Select Remote Desktop
- Now Save this configuration by clicking the OK button.
- That’s it.
