How to programmatically manage Remote Desktop Users?

Hi,
I want to know if it esists a method to programmatically set/get the Remote Desktop Users list, such as add/remove an user and so on.
Thank you all in advance
Best Regards
Antonino

Hi,
first of all, I want to thank you for reply. But, what I'm looking for is to programmatically view the list of the users for the Remote Desktop Control. With Remote Desktop Control I mean the way I let some other users over the network to operate with my own desktop in Windows XP (that is what you find in system->properties->remote desktop->advanced...and so on).
Antonino

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