Is there a max to the screen size in Remote Desktop?

[Bo Berglund]

I tried to connect from my laptop to my DELL main PC using Remote
Desktop. Both are running XP-Pro SP2. I have updated the RDP client
for compatibility with Vista.

What I tried was to use full screen on my laptop (1920x1200), but the
screen immediately sized to something smaller (about 1600x1200 or so).

So my question is if there is a limit to the size of the desktop one
can use via Remote Desktop?



Bo Berglund
bo.berglund(at)nospam.telia.com

 

[Bo Berglund]

I tried to connect from my laptop to my DELL main PC using Remote
Desktop. Both are running XP-Pro SP2. I have updated the RDP client
for compatibility with Vista.

What I tried was to use full screen on my laptop (1920x1200), but the
screen immediately sized to something smaller (about 1600x1200 or so).

So my question is if there is a limit to the size of the desktop one
can use via Remote Desktop?

Answering myself:
Yes, if using the RDP client thta ships with XP-Pro SP2.
But the updated client version 6 available from Microsoft fixes this
problem, now 1920x1200 is definitely possible.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925876



Bo Berglund
bo.berglund(at)nospam.telia.com

 

[Curt Christianson]

Good for you Bo, and thanks for posting back with the answer.

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Curt

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| On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:05:20 +0200, Bo Berglund <[email protected]>
| wrote:
|
| >I tried to connect from my laptop to my DELL main PC using Remote
| >Desktop. Both are running XP-Pro SP2. I have updated the RDP client
| >for compatibility with Vista.
| >
| >What I tried was to use full screen on my laptop (1920x1200), but the
| >screen immediately sized to something smaller (about 1600x1200 or so).
| >
| >So my question is if there is a limit to the size of the desktop one
| >can use via Remote Desktop?
| >
|
| Answering myself:
| Yes, if using the RDP client thta ships with XP-Pro SP2.
| But the updated client version 6 available from Microsoft fixes this
| problem, now 1920x1200 is definitely possible.
|
| http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925876
|
|
|
| Bo Berglund
| bo.berglund(at)nospam.telia.com