1. If you have not already, you may wish to delete the saved credentials of any listed remote desktop connection you wanted to remove while they are still listed to make it easier to do so.
2. If open, close the Remote Desktop Connection tool.
3. Press the
+ R keys to open the Run dialog, type regedit, and press Enter.
4. If prompted by UAC, then click/tap on Yes.
5. In Registry Editor, navigate to the location below. (see screenshot below)
2. If open, close the Remote Desktop Connection tool.
3. Press the
+ R keys to open the Run dialog, type regedit, and press Enter.4. If prompted by UAC, then click/tap on Yes.
5. In Registry Editor, navigate to the location below. (see screenshot below)
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Terminal Server Client\Default
6. In the right pane of Default, each listed "Computer" entry (ex: TUFFY-PC) in the Remote Desktop Connection tool will be stored in an MRUnumber (ex: MRU0) string value. Right click on the string value (ex: MRU0) of the "Computer" entry (ex: TUFFY-PC) that you want to remove, and click onDelete. (see screenshot above)
7. Click/tap on Yes to confirm. (see screenshot below)
8. Repeat steps 6 and 7 for any other listed "Computer" entry in the Remote Desktop Connection tool that you wish to remove.
9. Close Registry Editor.
10. Set Windows to Show hidden files, folders, and drives. (see screenshot below)
11. In File Explorer (Windows 8) or Windows Explorer (Windows 7), navigate to your My Documentsfolder location below, and delete the hidden (faded) Default.rpd file.
C:\Users\(user-name)\My Documents
12. Set Windows back to Don't show hidden files, folders, and drives. (see screenshot below)
13. Close the explorer window.
14. If you have the Remote Desktop Connection tool pinned to the taskbar, then you may also wish to unpin and/or remove any recent connections that you deleted still listed in it's Jump List. (see screenshot below)
