Postman breaks remote desktop connection on Win 11 25H2

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I launch Postman on my remote desktop and my remote desktop session immediately is disabled.

I can’t reestablish a connection, and I can’t remote reboot it. I have to shutdown and restart my machine with the power button.

This just started today. I hadn’t used Postman in a few weeks. I can’t use the web version as I have APIs I call which have my IP address white listed.

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Hi,

It sounds like Postman is causing a crash or lockup in your Remote Desktop session, which is definitely unusual. A few things to check:

  1. Postman version update – Did Postman auto-update recently? Sometimes a new version can conflict with certain remote desktop environments.

  2. Graphics / hardware acceleration – Postman uses Electron, which can trigger GPU or rendering issues. Try launching Postman with hardware acceleration disabled:

    postman --disable-gpu

    or set the environment variable ELECTRON_DISABLE_GPU=1 before launching.

  3. Remote desktop settings – Some RDP configurations (like “Reconnect if the session is disconnected” or certain display/graphics options) can conflict with Electron apps. Try reducing display resolution or color depth temporarily.

  4. Cache / local data corruption – Postman’s local data might have gotten corrupted. Consider moving the Postman data folder (usually under %AppData%\Postman) temporarily and relaunching to see if it starts.

If none of these help, a safer workaround is to run Postman on a different VM or local machine that matches your API white-list, or use a VPN so you can safely access your APIs from the web version without RDP issues.

This seems like a recent Postman + RDP interaction problem since it worked before. You might also want to report it to Postman support with logs they can investigate potential Electron/remote desktop conflicts.

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Thank you! Between updating and adding --disable-gpu to my shortcut, Postman is working again.