Register MSTSC.EXE to handle RDP URL in Windows

[ATC]

Did you ever want to create a link to a Windows Remote Desktop on a web page?

Something like rdp://10.0.0.2 would seem like an obvious thing for Windows to handle, yes?

Unfortunately, this is surprisingly hard to do, even with the FTYPE and ASSOC commands in Vista and Windows 7.

[ATC]

The following hack should work with Windows XP and newer:

http://floyd.atc.no/rdp.zip [1530 bytes]

The zip archive contains a registry fix, a small batch file wrapper for MSTSC.EXE and a README file explaining how the hack works.