Windows 7 Home Pro - no RDP

Seems like everyone knew, except me. Windows 7 Home Professional doesn’t allow incoming RDP connections. I found this out after repaving my XP Pro box that sits in the basement… RDP is a definite must.

My google research showed there are a couple places where you can download a patch that unlocks this ability in W7HP. But, like I’m gonna do that…

The next choice was UltraVNC. I’ve used VNC in the past and it works reasonably. The issue I found was most of the FAQs on how to install had disable UAC as step 1… again, not my first choice.

Then, I found a reference to Live Mesh supported a remote desktop feature. On digging, turns out Live Mesh is being deprecated for a new Live Synch available here.  So, I installed this on the box and now can remote in fine.  As can anyone else on the ‘net with an account … hmmm…