MuRD (Multiple Remote Desktops) is a Tab based manager for Remote Desktop connections. It incorporates an Explorer style interface and embedded, tabbed remote desktop connections for use with Microsoft Remote Desktop enabled hosts like Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Professional (and MCE) and Windows 2000 Terminal Services.

MuRD host’s Microsoft’s Remote Desktop ActiveX Control, so your experience inside the connection is the same as that of Microsoft’s Remote Desktop (or the Remote Desktops MMC Snap-in), but it exposes some extra features provided by the control that are not exposed by the standard Remote Desktop Application (eg Screen Resolution can be any size, “SmartSize” scaling of the remote desktop if it is run at a resolution higher than the size of the MuRD window).

MuRD also provides a management interface where your connection settings can be maintained in a logical grouping (completely up to you) using folders, connections, groups (open a number of logically associated remote connections at the same time, or just your “standard operating set” of remote connections) and shortcuts to connections or groups. You can also share a set of connection settings with others via a network share (for example), these settings are read only in the interface but available for everyone in your workgroup to use if required.