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Fix Error code 0x4 Session disconnected: Your session ended because of an error, if this keeps happening, contact your system administrator

Posted on 07/08/202003/09/2026 Christian By Christian 4 Comments on Fix Error code 0x4 Session disconnected: Your session ended because of an error, if this keeps happening, contact your system administrator
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Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is a proprietary protocol developed by Microsoft. It provides a user with a graphical interface to connect to another computer over a network connection. In this article, we will discuss how to “Fix Error code 0x4 Session disconnected: Your session ended because of an error, if this keeps happening, contact your system administrator’. You will receive the following error “Your session has ended because of an error. Error Code 0x4″ whenever your Mac goes to sleep”. Please see how to fix this network connection does not exist.

Below are some troubleshooting guides relating to RDP  “We could not connect to the remote PC with error code 0x204 and make sure the PC is turned on and connected to the network–Part 1“.

Since this is actually not a problem, please use the following steps below to mitigate this issue.

Session disconnect error

Also, see the fix to “we could not connect to the remote PC with error code 0x204 and make sure the PC is turned on and connected to the network–Part 2“. Here is How to create a contact in Active Directory.

Solutions to “Error code 0x4 Session disconnected: Session ended due to error”

Kindly refer to the steps below to resolve these issues.

  • Launch a new RDP connection or
  • Simply increase the maximum outstanding connections limit on the windows client machine. The following DWORD registry key controls this value.

See the following hyperlinks for what is Registry Editor and how to access the registry hives and how to search through Windows Registry.

Launch the Windows registry, navigate through hives to troubleshoot the 0x4 Session Disconnection Error, as described below. Error code 0x4 Session disconnected: Session ended due to error

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
- SYSTEM
- CurrentControlSet
- Control
- Terminal Server
- MaxOutstandingConnections
Screenshot of Windows Registry Editor displaying the process of adding a new DWORD (32-bit) value under the Terminal Server settings.
Now create the DWORD key if your machine doesn't have it.
- Set it to 10,000 (hex value)

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Comments (4) on “Fix Error code 0x4 Session disconnected: Your session ended because of an error, if this keeps happening, contact your system administrator”

  1. Avatar photo alex says:
    20/10/2020 at 1:09 PM

    Hi there, I don’t have

    CurrentControlSet
    Control
    Terminal Server
    MaxOutstandingConnections

    under System/ using win server 12

    any help?

    Thanks

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    1. chris Christian says:
      20/10/2020 at 2:06 PM

      Hi Alex,

      As described in the article, you will have to create this key. Use the screenshot provided.

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  2. Avatar photo Anthony says:
    26/02/2021 at 9:06 PM

    I really wished this helped. I do not have a MaxOutstandingConnections. I added DWORD at Terminal Server, but that did not work.

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    1. chris Christian says:
      26/02/2021 at 11:29 PM

      Hi, Please you will have to create it “MaxOutstandingConnections”. After creation, please set the DWORD value to 10,000. A reboot of the remote machine is recommended afterward.

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