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Steevo:
I am trying to enable remote desktop on my Windows 7 system.
I am setting up a site to site vpn and I need it to be able to get to my router here from the other site.

For some reason, even though I have turned on RDC, checked all the services in services.msc (some do not allow me to start them) I cannot connect to the system, and the problem is clearly this particular computer.
I turned off the firewall, no difference.

I have forwarded a port through my router and set the RDC port to that port.
I used a remote ping service from here, and it reports that port is closed.
http://ping.eu/port-chk/

So to test, I turned on RDC on the default port on my old notebook computer, XP, and on the router I forwarded the default port 3389 to that computer.  The port check site says that port is open. I changed the port to test to 3388 and the port is closed. Duh, I didn't forward that one. So the port test works.

The problem is the windows 7 professional system. Something is preventing RDC from working.

Any ideas for steps to isolate this problem? 

I did remove KB2984972 which added an additional security setting, but that did not solve this problem.

Julian:
what version of windows 7? here is a command you can type into command prompt that will pull it up for you.

--- Code: ---wmic os get version,caption,servicepackmajorversion
--- End code ---

Steevo:
wmic os get version,caption,servicepackmajorversion
Caption                           ServicePackMajorVersion  Version
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional  1                        6.1.7601
That is not a home version which lacks remote desktop, which I am sure you were checking. I knew that.

I did uninstall  KB2984972 which added a security setting to RDC. No difference.

Steevo:

--- Quote from: Steevo on October 23, 2015, 08:52:13 pm ---wmic os get version,caption,servicepackmajorversion
Caption                           ServicePackMajorVersion  Version
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional  1                        6.1.7601

That is not a home version which lacks remote desktop, which I am sure you were checking. I knew that.

I did uninstall  KB2984972 which added a security setting to RDC. No difference.

--- End quote ---

I think I clicked the wrong button, I got a duplicate post.

Steevo:
Windows 7 Professional.

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