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Is it possible to increase the timeout time for attempting to connect to a computer using Windows Remote Desktop client?

My Windows Server 2012 computer was running very slow yesterday, and then became unresponsive. This morning, I was able to get a single ping reply from it, which leads me to assume it's on and functioning, just very very slowly. As it stands, RDC just fails to connect, but I hypothesize if I can increase the timeout time, it might be able to connect so I can reboot the machine. Is it possible to do this? Is there any way to increase the Remote Desktop Connection client's connection timeout/number of attempts?

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Click the blank black screen once every 5 seconds until the user login appears. From personal experience, I find that clicking the screen like this keeps the session alive.

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This may be a bit late, but maybe it still helps someone. We are using a wrapper for the native Remote Desktop Client called RDP+. We had a similar issue where a remote system over an IPSec VPN took a while to respond and this fixed the issue. It has some nice additional features, including a timeout parameter, which tries the connection for x seconds:

/t:20

This will try for 20 seconds to establish a connection.

License:

Remote Desktop Plus is FREE to use for home, personal or corporate use.

For more details, please check their website.

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