How to Restart RDP Service in Windows 10

3 ways to Restart RDP Service in Windows 10 – via Services, Task manager, and PowerShell.

Remote Desktop is a great feature that provides you the ability to access, interact, and administer a computer remotely. However, in certain situations, you may come across some issues in the remote PC and might need to Restart RDP Service.

There are three different ways through which you can restart the TermService (service name) in Windows 10. So explore the below section to find out the methods and see which one seems easier for you.

Restart RDP Service

Here is How to Restart RDP Service in Windows 10 –

1] Through Services Snap-in

The easiest way to manage services, including restarting them is through Services administrative tool only. So, follow the given sequence of steps to carry out the –

1. Press key combination of “Win logo + R”.
2. Type in services.msc and click OK.
3. Scroll down and locate Remote Desktop Services.
4. Right-click on the service and from the list of options, choose Restart.

1. As an alternative, you can also use the toolbar to restart RDP Service. To do so, simply select the service and click Restart Service icon on the toolbar (see screenshot).

2] Using Task Manager

Another simple way to Restart RDP Service is via Task Manager, the system monitor program in Windows 10. Go through the steps below to accomplish the task –

1. Press Start, type Task Manager and then hit enter.
2. Click on the Services tab
3. Find and right-click on the name TermService and choose Restart.

3] Via Elevated PowerShell

1. Perform a right-click on the Start icon and select “Windows PowerShell (Admin)” from Win+X menu.
2. Click Yes when UAC dialog prompts up.
3. Type the command in the following format and hit Enter –

Restart-Service -Force -Name «TermService»

Restart-Service -Force -DisplayName «Remote Desktop Services»

Windows restart terminal service

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Yes, open up a command prompt as a administrator and type in the following commands:

net stop TermService

net start TermService

There is PowerShell script for enabling Remote Desktop:

Checking and enabling Remote Desktop with PowerShell

Based on my experience, I don’t know a direct command-line to enable this feature.

From Windows Server 2008 Core edition, here is one:

How to enable Remote Desktop on Windows 2008 Server Core

· Lionel Chen

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Windows restart terminal service

I’ll just say nonsence!

It can be manipulated.

C:\>tasklist /svc /S servername/U username /P password

this will list the processes

in my case these were the processes

Image Name PID Services
========================= ====== =============================================
System Idle Process 0 N/A
System 4 N/A
smss.exe 308 N/A
csrss.exe 356 N/A
winlogon.exe 380 N/A
services.exe 428 Eventlog, PlugPlay
lsass.exe 440 HTTPFilter, Netlogon, NtLmSsp, PolicyAgent,
ProtectedStorage, SamSs
svchost.exe 696 DcomLaunch
svchost.exe 752 RpcSs
svchost.exe 820 Dhcp, Dnscache
svchost.exe 840 LmHosts, W32Time
svchost.exe 876 AeLookupSvc, AudioSrv, BITS, Browser,
CryptSvc, dmserver, EventSystem, HidServ,
lanmanserver, lanmanworkstation, Netman,
Nla, RasMan, Schedule, seclogon, SENS,
ShellHWDetection, TrkWks, winmgmt, wuauserv,
WZCSVC
spoolsv.exe 1072 Spooler
bedbg.exe 1204 bedbg
svchost.exe 1252 ERSvc
EUQMonitor.exe 1280 EUQ_Monitor
HealthService.exe 1304 HealthService
inetinfo.exe 1364 IISADMIN, NntpSvc, RESvc, SMTPSVC
jqs.exe 1388 JavaQuickStarterService
NTRtScan.exe 1440 ntrtscan
svchost.exe 1492 RemoteRegistry
svcGenericHost.exe 1528 ScanMail_Master
svcGenericHost.exe 1568 ScanMail_SystemWatcher
SMEX_Master.exe 1588 N/A
snmp.exe 1620 SNMP
SMEX_SystemWatcher.exe 1644 N/A
snmptrap.exe 1688 SNMPTRAP
mssearch.exe 1828 MSSEARCH
TmListen.exe 2004 tmlisten
SMEX_ActiveUpdate.exe 2336 N/A
svchost.exe 2524 W3SVC
w3wp.exe 2892 N/A
exmgmt.exe 3056 MSExchangeMGMT
mad.exe 3128 MSExchangeSA
store.exe 3416 MSExchangeIS
emsmta.exe 3432 MSExchangeMTA
MonitoringHost.exe 3480 N/A
CNTAoSMgr.exe 3680 N/A
wmiprvse.exe 3704 N/A
wmiprvse.exe 3952 N/A
MonitoringHost.exe 4084 N/A
svcGenericHost.exe 5112 ScanMail_RemoteConfig
SMEX_RemoteConfig.exe 5220 N/A
svchost.exe 5304 TermService
TmProxy.exe 5348 TmProxy
beremote.exe 2848 BackupExecAgentAccelerator
svchost.exe 5084 TapiSrv
wmiprvse.exe 22424 N/A
dllhost.exe 20588 COMSysApp
msdtc.exe 21920 MSDTC
tlntsvr.exe 19608 TlntSvr
w3wp.exe 20164 N/A

then to end the process and all threads

C:\>pskill -t \\servername -u username -p password 5304

do some searching for switches if necessary.

Basics for Computer Nerds!

How do you restart the terminal services service? In MMC (services.msc), it is greyed out. It would be handy to be able to do it if you don’t want to restart the whole server.

The official word from Microsoft is: “The Terminal Services service is an integrated part of the core OS in Windows, that’s why it can’t be stopped or restarted as most other services (it is grayed out).”

The following procedure does the trick:

1. Open a command prompt
2. Type in: tasklist /svc /fi “imagename eq svchost.exe”
3. This will list the different instances of svchost.exe and the associated service and PID
4. Locate TermService and note the PID for it
5. Open Task Manager and go to the Processes tab. Then click View > Select Columns and check PID, then click OK
6. Locate the svchost.exe process with the PID noted in step 4, right click it, select End Process
7. Open services.msc
8. Start the Terminal Services service

3 thoughts on “Windows Server 2003: How to restart the Terminal Services service”

Note, if you get the error:
ERROR: Invalid argument/option — ‘eq’.

Then don’t copy and paste the command:
tasklist /svc /fi «imagename eq svchost.exe»
Instead, type it in manually due to the quotation marks.

Thank you for this concise work-around to a limitation of Windows 2003. Your article comes up at the top of the search results in Google for obvious reasons.

Windows restart terminal service

Question

Answers

Yes, open up a command prompt as a administrator and type in the following commands:

net stop TermService

net start TermService

There is PowerShell script for enabling Remote Desktop:

Checking and enabling Remote Desktop with PowerShell

Based on my experience, I don’t know a direct command-line to enable this feature.

From Windows Server 2008 Core edition, here is one:

How to enable Remote Desktop on Windows 2008 Server Core

· Lionel Chen

If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tngfd@microsoft.com

This posting is provided «AS IS» with no warranties, and confers no rights.