{"id":758,"date":"2016-06-20T20:37:03","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T09:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/?post_type=article&#038;p=758"},"modified":"2016-06-21T18:54:07","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T07:54:07","slug":"change-rdp-port-windows-10-8-1-7","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/article\/change-rdp-port-windows-10-8-1-7\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Change the RDP Port (Remote Desktop) in Windows 10, 8.1 and 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s how to change the Remote Desktop Port (RDP) in Windows 10. \u00a0This also applies to Windows 8.1 and Windows 7. \u00a0Here are also the instructions if you are looking to add an<a href=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/article\/add-additional-rdp-port-windows-10\/\"> additional Remote Desktop Port<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Step 1<\/h3>\n<p>Open the Windows Registry (<a href=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/article\/how-to-open-the-windows-registry-editor-in-windows\/\" target=\"_blank\">instructions<\/a>)<\/p>\n<h3>Step 2<\/h3>\n<p>Browse to the following Registry Sub Key<\/p>\n<p>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\System\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\TerminalServer\\WinStations\\RDP-Tcp\\PortNumber<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Change-RDP-Port-Number-in-Windows-10.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-759\" data-original=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Change-RDP-Port-Number-in-Windows-10.png\" alt=\"Change RDP Port Number in Windows 10\" width=\"748\" height=\"578\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Step 3<\/h3>\n<p>On the Edit Menu Click on Modify and Click on Decimal<\/p>\n<h3>Step 4<\/h3>\n<p>Type in the new Port Number and Click on OK<\/p>\n<h3>Step 5<\/h3>\n<p>Exit out of the Windows Registry Editor<\/p>\n<h3>Step 6<\/h3>\n<p>Restart the Computer and check.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note: If you&#8217;re having issues connecting after adding the new RDP Port to the Windows Registry please follow these <a href=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/article\/troubleshooting-rdp-connection-issues-port-number-change\/\">RDP Troubleshooting tips<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='text-align:left' class='yasr-auto-insert-visitor'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s how to change the Remote Desktop Port (RDP) in Windows 10. \u00a0This also applies to Windows 8.1 and Windows 7. \u00a0Here are also the instructions if you are looking to add an additional Remote Desktop Port Step 1 Open the Windows Registry (instructions) Step 2 Browse to the following Registry Sub Key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\System\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\TerminalServer\\WinStations\\RDP-Tcp\\PortNumber Step [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","article-category":[452,519,36],"article-tag":[597,600,599,614,598],"class_list":["post-758","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","article-category-windows-10","article-category-windows-7","article-category-windows-8","article-tag-change-rdp-port-number-windows-10","article-tag-change-rdp-port-windows-7","article-tag-change-rdp-port-windows-8","article-tag-change-remote-desktop-port-windows-10","article-tag-windows-10-change-rdp-port"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":3,"sum_votes":13},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-category?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"article-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-tag?post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}