I just get a black screen remoting (RDP) into Windows 8 box
When I remote into my Windows 8 desktop with Windows 7 it works fine but when try with Windows 8 I get an empty screen after it connects. Keyboard commands work despite the screen being black; I can open Explorer etc. using them and they persist when I reconnect with Windows 7.
Any ideas on what is wrong?
This Technet thread suggests:
- Type Ctrl + Alt + End
- Then cancel
- Then exiting and reconnecting
You could also try disabling bitmap caching using this KB article.
Open the Local Group Policy Editor on the machine you are running the Remote Desktop client.
Under Computer Configuration>Administrative Templates>Windows Components>Remote Desktop Services?Remote Desktop Connection Client
Enable the setting called Turn Off UDP On Client
Now I'm able to connect without issue... somehow UDP isn't making it through and this change fixes the problem!
Should anyone wish to change the setting from registry rather than through group policy, here's the place to do that:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Terminal Services\Client
Create\set fClientDisableUDP (REG_DWORD) to 1.
PS> Set-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Terminal Services\Client' -Name fClientDisableUDP -Value 1