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The thread’s main topic is how to open multiple Remote Desktop sessions from a pinned taskbar shortcut on Windows (specifically, avoiding the behavior where clicking the icon reopens the already-active session). The key solution discussed is that using Shift+click on the pinned Remote Desktop icon forces a new instance/window, allowing separate connections to different servers simultaneously. Overall sentiment is positive and relieved, with the original poster expressing frustration before discovering the workaround.
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I use the remote desktop to remote into our servers, so I pinned it to the taskbar. Problem was going to another server, because when I clicked the icon on the taskbar it opened up the remote desktop of the server I already logged into.

Under XP you'd just click on the icon and it would keep opening a new instance. Very frustrating because I wanted to work on two servers at once. I started thinking I'd have to look into some cool shareware or open source project.

Took me awhile, but if you shift+click an item on the taskbar that already is open, a new instance will be opened. Yea!!:cool:
 

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