I'm using remote desktop to connect to a development web server.

The default timeout seems to be < 30 minutes. Reconnecting is slow, so I would like to make the timeout be at least a day.

I have looked at the remote desktop client and this does not seem to be a setting.

So what disgusting reg hacks do I need to make this work in a sane way?

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What you want to configure is the idle session limit. Exact steps vary by operating system, but you can Google "idle session limit" and your OS, and you should be able to find either how to configure a single server or how to set Group Policy to configure a number of servers.

For Server 2003:

For Server 2008 R2:

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I know this may not be the exact solution you are looking for, but if you use this it would result in an infinite up time. It just simulates normal mouse use for the computer and resets the log off timer every second. It also is not so over the top that you cant use the mouse while its on. So you can both leave it on and do work on the computer.

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