Disabling Printer redirect on RDP connection resolved the crashing. Crashing was taking place on a Windows 10 PC using the native Desktop RDP app, not the Windows 10 RDP store app.
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Windows 10 Fall Creators Update: Remote Desktop Crashes
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I just installed the Fall Creators Update on Windows 10/64 bit, and now Remote Desktop Connection crashes every time I try to connect to another PC running Windows 10 64 bit (which I haven't updated yet). Moreover, my Surface 3, running Windows 10 (but also not yet updated) can successfully connect to the same target PC.
To be clear, the connection goes through. But, invariably, within 30 seconds the Remote Desktop Connection app crashes on the machine running the Fall Creators Update.
Methinks something didn't get tested before the update was rolled out.
Any workarounds or solutions?
- Mark
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Anonymous
2017-10-21T21:41:29+00:00 Bingo! Worked for me as well! Unchecking "Printers" under "Local resources" solved crash issue. You obviously lose printing ability, though.
Did you have a printer physically attached to that computer? In the case of my laptop I had no printer so one could not provide a local resource. My desktop did have a printer physically attached so it did work with printers checked.
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Anonymous
2017-10-21T17:02:53+00:00 Bingo! Worked for me as well! Unchecking "Printers" under "Local resources" solved crash issue. You obviously lose printing ability, though.
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Anonymous
2017-10-20T14:41:39+00:00 I have two computers that I updated - a desktop and a laptop. The laptop is the only one that experienced the RDP hang problem. I opened up the connection and clicked on Show Options, Local Resources tab, and unchecked Printers as I have no printer connected to the laptop. RDP worked fine after that.
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Anonymous
2017-10-20T12:44:51+00:00 Disable printer redirection in the RDP settings.