Q. You receive 'The remote computer disconnected the session because of an error in licensing protocol' when you attempt to connect to a remote computer using Remote Desktop on a Windows XP Professional Edition?

When you attempt to connect to a remote computer using Remote Desktop on a Windows XP Professional Edition, you receive:

The remote computer disconnected the session because of an error in licensing protocol.

To resolve this behavior, I have scripted FixRDMSL.bat, which contains:

@echo offsetlocalcall :Quiet>nul 2>&1set key=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftMSLicensingfor /f "Tokens=*" %%a in ('REG QUERY %key%^|find /i "%key%"') do ( @echo REG DELETE "%%a" /F REG DELETE "%%a" /F)endlocalgoto :EOF:QuietNET START TERMSERVICE

To fix this behavior:

1. Open a CMD.EXE window.

2. Type FixRDMSL.bat, or the fully qualified file name, and press Enter.

3. Shutdown and restart Windows XP.