Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 remote desktop issues or "Stop looking at me!!!"

I occasionally get asked to enable Remote Desktop on a Windows 7 machine that does not normally include the feature (Home Premium). Enabling the feature is pretty straightforward and allows for easy remote management of the computer for advanced users.

Jordan Hopfner has a terrific article on his blog for enabling Remote Desktop on Windows 7 Home Premium (either 32 or 64 bit). Download the ZIP file here, extract the contents to a folder, and run the "install.cmd" file as an administrator.

This worked fine for me for almost 2 years. But recently, I began to hear about issues connecting to machines patched this way. Remote Desktop clients would connect to the machine, but would disconnect again almost immediately right before the login screen would be displayed. It seems to be related to an issue with the local session manager.

Contributor "BobX" over at Windows Seven Forums posted the solution here - uninstall the Windows patch KB2984972 - "Update for RDC 7.1 to support restricted administration logons on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2".

After following Bob's directions to uninstall the update, Remote Desktop began working again.

UPDATE: There are also reports of the Windows update KB3003743 also breaking Remote Desktop, but hat has not been my experience yet.