This tutorial mainly guides users on how to make Remote Desktop faster when initiating remote connection takes a long time. Specifically, two methods are introduced here. One is to change network setting, and another is to change .rdp file.
“When making the remote connection from my Windows 10 computer to my Windows 7 computer, Remote Desktop initiating remote connection always takes a very long time, normally a 20-30 second delay before the connection is established. Does anyone know how to make Remote Desktop faster on Windows 10?”
No matter whether you want to remotely access another computer over the Internet or not, you can use Remote Desktop. But sometimes, you may encounter Remote Desktop slow problems as we mentioned above. In this part, we introduce two ways to help you out when initiating remote connection takes a long time.
Step 1. Click Start and then click Settings. Find Network & Internet and then click it.
Step 2. On the Network & Internet interface, find Advanced network settings, click Change adapter options below.
Step 3. Right-click your network and then click Properties.
Step 4. Click Configure.
Step 5. Switch to the Advanced tab. Click the Large Send Offload Version 2 (IPv4) and change the value to Disabled.
Enablecredsspsupport, this setting determines whether RDP will use the Credential Security Support Provider (CredSSP) for authentication if it is available. To configure RDP to not use CredSSP will fix this problem.
Step 1. Open Remote Desktop Connection. On the General tab, find Connection settings and click Save As.
Step 2. Enter the file name you want for the file and then click Save. For example, I save it as “remote-desktop-home” here. And please remember the file location.
Step 3. Find the file you just saved and right-click it. Then open it with Notepad.
Step 4. Add “enablecredsspsupport:i:0” into the file and then save the file.
AnyViewer is the free and fast third-party remote desktop software for Windows and iOS devices. It is the best Remote Desktop alternative. Compared with RDP, AnyViewer has obvious advantages.
Next, let’s see how to use AnyViewer.
Step 1. Download, install and launch AnyViewer on bothcomputers.
Step 2. Go to Log in, and then click Sign up. (If you already have signed up on its official website, you can login directly.)
Step 3. Fill in the signup information.
Step 4. Then you can see you successfully logged in to AnyViewer. Your device will automatically be assigned to theaccount you've logged in to.
Step 5. Log in to the same AnyViewer account on the two devices, then click One-click control to achieve unattended remote access.
This post mainly introduces two methods to fix initiating remote connection takes a long time problem. If you want a fast remote connection, you can also use AnyViewer, the free remote desktop software. Its advantages over Remote Desktop have been briefly summarized in this post.
