Knowledge Area: How to Clear Remote Desktop Connection List

Sometimes an IT professional needs to work on a server from other or public computer. May be he is not at his own desk while working. For which, the professional needs to use a remote desktop tools. Here, we will discuss about Microsoft's Remote Access tool. Remote desktop tool is usually connected with any other computer in the network using an IP address. So, we need to provide an IP address to get remote desktop access. But now the problem is that, when we provide an IP address, this tool saves IP information. It's a big security issue. If the computer used for remote access is professional's own computer, in that case. there is no problem at all. But if the computer is the public computer then it is the biggest risk. Because the information is likely to be published here. So, all IT professionals should have deleted the IP address when finished. And how to delete these IP addresses, we will discuss this matter with this article.

Remote access connection tool usually saves IP addresses in windows registry. So to delete them, we have to delete from the registry. When we go below path to the registry, then we will get those data.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software -> Microsoft -> TerminalServerClient -> Default

The IP addresses we were used, here will be saved with the MRU name, also show the IP addresses we were used. A sample is shown below:-

Each of the IP addresses we are used, this tool generate a MRU file separately for those addresses. So, we can delete all MRU file or IP address and also, we can delete specific one MRU file or one IP address, whatever I want.

How can we do the whole thing, is shown through the screenshot.

First of all open "Registry Editor" tool from "RUN" menu. Type regedit from "RUN" option and then press enter. "Registry Editor" interface will be showed.