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#210076 - 2015-03-10 04:12 PM help keeping remote desktop session alive
BradV Offline
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My system was recently changed from Windows XP to Windows 7. I have many tools installed on my local workstation that I use to access various things around the network and access is based on my ip address. In order not to have to change the configuration or try to install on every citrix desktop I log in to (as I travel around to various parts of the campus visiting my customers and/or servers), I normally just remote desktop back to my computer at my desk. This worked fine for XP. Never had a problem. However, with Windows 7, they've incorporated a policy setting (that I can't change) that limits idle remote desktop time to 15 minutes. I think it is "Set time limit for active but idle Remote Desktop Services sessions." This sucks because I'm often away from the desktop for more than 15 minutes attending meetings, or working on servers. When I come back, my remote desktop session has been killed and all my open applications have also been killed.

Does anyone have an idea how to trick a remote desktop session into thinking there is activity going on?

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#210078 - 2015-03-10 09:43 PM Re: help keeping remote desktop session alive [Re: BradV]
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Yup; http://darkfame.net/projects/windows
Or http://eng.softq.org/files/antiscreensaver.zip
Or commandline app: http://www.zhornsoftware.co.uk/caffeine/

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#210079 - 2015-03-10 11:09 PM Re: help keeping remote desktop session alive [Re: Arend_]
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Thanks! I'll take a look at those. \:\)
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#210080 - 2015-03-11 01:34 AM Re: help keeping remote desktop session alive [Re: BradV]
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Uh. My rdp never kicks me out, only disconnects. That sounds silly for admin rdp.
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#210091 - 2015-03-11 11:22 AM Re: help keeping remote desktop session alive [Re: Lonkero]
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I'm not a Corporate domain admin. I support several projects. I am the system administrator on the servers that I run for them, but my desktop is a corporate workstation. \:\(
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#210093 - 2015-03-11 11:56 AM Re: help keeping remote desktop session alive [Re: BradV]
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