Many of you have multiple Windows XP computers running Remote Desktop on your home or SOHO networks. It would be great to be able to connect to all of these computers over the Internet, but that usually requires multiple IP addresses bound to the Internet interface of your cable or DSL router. The following is a great trick that allows you to make all of your Remote Desktops available from the Internet using just a single Internet IP address:

1. Click Start, click the Run command and type in "regedit" (without the quotes) to open the Registry Editor.
2. Browse to the following location in the left pane
   HKEY LOCAL MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\
   Control\TerminalServer\WinStations\RDP-Tcp
3. In the right pane, right click on PortNumber and click the Modify command.
4. In the Edit DWORD dialog box, click the decimal option and change the port number to whatever you want. Click OK and restart your computer.
5. Log into your router and use port forwarding to forward the port you chose to your IP address on the network.
6. Now when connecting to your computer from another computer, you have to type the following in the connection box for remote desktop
7. YourIPaddress:YourNewPort (that is a colon in the middle). For example: 66.245.178.25:3388