You receive 'The remote computer disconnected the session because of an error in licensing protocol' on XP Prf

You receive 'The remote computer disconnected the session because of an error in licensing protocol' when you attempt to connect to a remote computer using Remote Desktop on a Windows XP Professional Edition?

When you attempt to connect to a remote computer using Remote Desktop on a Windows XP Professional Edition, you receive:

The remote computer disconnected the session because of an error in licensing protocol.

To resolve this behavior, I have scripted FixRDMSL.bat, which contains:

@echo off
setlocal
call :Quiet>nul 2>&1
set key=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSLicensing
for /f "Tokens=*" %%a in ('REG QUERY %key%^|find /i "%key%\"') do (
 @echo REG DELETE "%%a" /F
 REG DELETE "%%a" /F
)
endlocal
goto :EOF
:Quiet
NET START TERMSERVICE

To fix this behavior:

1. Open a CMD.EXE window.

2. Type FixRDMSL.bat, or the fully qualified file name, and press Enter.

3. Shutdown and restart Windows XP.