How to use Remote Desktop more secure

I already explained How to use remote desktop in previous post, if you don't know how to do it i recommend you to read it first.

In this post i'll guide you how to use remote desktop in more advance step by changing remote desktop default port to other, this will make you use remote desktop more secure due to if this is implemented, users who want to remote to that computer have to specify port, not just user and password like in previous post.

On your host(computer you want to remote to):

This is an easy step, all you have to do is change default configuration on registry to new port.

First, press [window+r] to open run box, or click start menu-> Run..., type "regedit" in run box and Enter, Registry Editor window will appear then in left panel browse path following this

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\TerminalServer\WinStations\RDP-Tcp\PortNumber

Double click PortNumber in right panel to open it, Edit value window will appear and it should show current Remote Desktop port(3389 or d3d in Hexadecimal base), to make it easy check that you are selecting decimal base or not, change it to decimal, now you can specify new port yourself, value should between 1024 to 65535 cause the first 1024 ports number are reserveed by system.

Exit the registry window, in registry window you don't need to save configuration like other configurations, so to make sure this takes effect, restart your computer. and test it

On computer that use to remote:

On this side is very easier than the host side, do you see the first picture on this post?, that it!. to use remote desktop from this side to control computer on host side, you just add ":" and new remote desktop port that you just done on above, in picture i set new remote desktop to port "2009" , hope you can do that, if you have any problem, leave comment and i'll try to help.