A Fast, Portable Remote Desktop Manager
Meld RDP is a lightweight, portable application designed to simplify the management of
your remote desktop client (*.rdp) connections.
I created this tool because I was frustrated with the current connection managers out there - they were either too slow, overly complex, or lacked portability.
It's free for personal use. For commercial use, I'm asking people to either contribute a PR or donate a few dollars to help support development. More details are in the license.
I'm sharing this because I think it could help others who need a no-fuss remote desktop manager.
Thanks for checking it out!
- Portable
- Quick startup
- Simple to use
- Keyboard shortcuts for quick connections
- Connection Groups
- Quick Search
- Multi-monitor span support
- Keep session alive
- Light and Dark theme support (follows OS setting)
- Custom connection backgrounds
- Download
MeldRDP.zipfrom the Releases page. - Unzip it and run
Meld RDP.exe.
- Add a new connection by clicking the
Add Connectionbutton (or press Alt + a). - The RDP connection editor window will pop up, fill in the connection details
and click
Save.
- Once the RDP edit window is closed, a simpler edit window will pop up where you can give
your connection an optional Name, Group and Background image. Click
Saveto close when done.
- Your connection will now appear in the main window. Click it (or press Ctrl + 1) to start the connection.
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For the 'Keep session alive' feature to work, this application ships with
MsRdpEx.dllandmstscex.exewhich are developed and maintained by Devolutions (https://github.com/Devolutions/MsRdpEx) -
All RDP files are saved in the
Connectionsfolder in the same directory as the application. You can also simply copy your existing*.rdpfiles into this location to 'import' them.
- Alt + a - Add a connection
- Ctrl + 1 to Ctrl + 0 - Connect to the item in that list position (note that Ctrl + 0 will connect to the 10th connection in the visible list)
- Ctrl + r - Refresh the connection list
