HOWTO: Enable Concurrent logins with Windows 8 - a newby guide.

Discussion in 'Windows 8' started by cyber7, Mar 6, 2012.

  1. cyber7

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    #1 cyber7, Mar 6, 2012
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    To enable concurrent logins into Windows 8 (I needed this for VM testing for all my engineers, as I do not want to create 6 VM's nor roll out 6 test PC's), you need to do a couple of things.

    I used a directory on the Desktop to do all the work...)
    1. Get yourself a HEX editor. I found a pendrive program called HEX-ED at: ww<dot>pendriveapps<dot>com/hex-ed-portable-hex-editor/
    2. Make a copy of termserv.dll (You will find this in c:\windows\system32)
    3. Open HEX-ED and open this copied termserv.dll
    4. Find the following HEX values. (HINT: Click the HEX button):
    WIN8-64:
    Code:
    8B 87 38 06 00 00 39 87

    replace (FROM 8B on-wards) with:
    Code:
    B8 00 01 00 00 89 87 38 06 00 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90

    (UNTESTED:)
    WIN8-32:
    FIND:
    Code:
    B8 00 01 00 00 90
    REPLACE:
    Code:
    3B 86 20 03 00 00 0F 84 ED F2 01 00


    I then rebooted into safe mode:
    www<dot>addictivetips<dot>com/windows-tips/how-to-enable-windows-8-safe-mode/
    Right-clicked on the original termserv.dll and took ownership, renamed it (to -orig) and moved my patched version into the directory.

    Rebooted the machine into normal mode and WALLA, everything is working as it should! Multi-user login and all my engineers can preview at heart's content.

    Kind regards
    cyber7 (aka Aubrey Kloppers)
    Cape Town
    ps - To find who is currently logged-in you can run:
    Code:
    qwinsta
    This gives you details who is logged in, and active/disc...
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