Do not use temporary folders per session
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Computer
Category
Windows Components > Remote Desktop Services > Remote Desktop Session Host > Temporary folders
Supported on
At least Windows Server 2003

Supported OS tags: Windows10, Windows10RT, Windows11, Windows7, Windows8, Windows81, WindowsRT, WindowsRT81, WindowsServer2003, WindowsServer2008, WindowsServer2012, WindowsServer2012R2, WindowsServer2016, WindowsVista

This policy setting allows you to prevent Remote Desktop Services from creating session-specific temporary folders. You can use this policy setting to disable the creation of separate temporary folders on a remote computer for each session. By default, Remote Desktop Services creates a separate temporary folder for each active session that a user maintains on a remote computer. These temporary folders are created on the remote computer in a Temp folder under the user's profile folder and are named with the sessionid. If you enable this policy setting, per-session temporary folders are not created. Instead, a user's temporary files for all sessions on the remote computer are stored in a common Temp folder under the user's profile folder on the remote computer. If you disable this policy setting, per-session temporary folders are always created, even if the server administrator specifies otherwise. If you do not configure this policy setting, per-session temporary folders are created unless the server administrator specifies otherwise.

Internal name
TS_TEMP_PER_SESSION
Policy ID
b20118374dc8
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

ScopeRegistry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled valueCopy
Computer
Path
SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Terminal Services
Value name
PerSessionTempDir
REG_DWORD
HKLM
0
HKLM
1
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · Computer
Path
SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Terminal Services
Value name
PerSessionTempDir
Hive
HKLM
Enabled value
0
Disabled value
1

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