Bizarre Remote Desktop problem -- can't move to top of screen

[Gary Fritz]

I doubt this is the right place to post this question, but I'm not sure
where IS the right place, so...

Conditions: I am running on a Vista Home Premium SP1 laptop with an
attached 1680x1050 monitor. (Using only that monitor, not the laptop
monitor.)

I am using Remote Desktop (6.0.6001) to connect to a Windows 2003 R2 SP2
server. The 2003 system has matched the resolution of my monitor,
according to Display Properties on the remote system.

I've suddenly noticed that I can't move the mouse to the top of the
screen! Or, rather, I can move the mouse there, but the remote 2003
system doesn't generally see or acknowledge it. Examples:

* If I drag a window, it "stops" about 100 pixels from the top of the
screen. The mouse keeps moving but the window won't go any higher.
* If I drag an icon up there, the icon stops at the same place.
However if I drag the icon over a window, the sprint changes into a "no"
symbol and suddenly jumps up to where the mouse is. When I drag the icon
back onto the desktop, the sprint changes back to a "grayed icon" and
pops back down to the "do not cross" line.
* Any mouse clicks above the "do not cross" line happen to whatever
is directly under the mouse, down on the "do not cross" line.

!???

This is only manifesting on the remote system. The local Remote Desktop
client knows where the mouse really is. The mouse sprite moves properly,
moving to the top of the Remote Desktop screen displays the drop-down
menu, etc.

I've only recently installed this 2003 system, but I didn't notice this
strange behavior until today. I don't think it was doing it before. My
most recent actions have been to install Daemon Tools Lite and Altiris.

Help!?
Gary

 

[Dusko Savatovic]

While you are in the RD session...
- change from full screen to window
- set the display resolution to 1024 x 768. If it already is at that
resolution, change it to something else.
- optionaly, go back to full screen
This usualy redraws and resets the desktop (and mouse).

 

[Gary Fritz]

While you are in the RD session...
- change from full screen to window
- optionaly, go back to full screen
This usualy redraws and resets the desktop (and mouse).

Already did that dozens of times while working for the last few days.
Didn't seem to have any effect.

- set the display resolution to 1024 x 768. If it already is at that
resolution, change it to something else.

It's in full-screen "match resolution" mode. I can't change the resolution
unless I turn that off.

Now, having said that: this morning I was going to try turning off full-
screen mode and a few other things, and... without me doing anything but
starting up RD, it stopped as mysteriously as it started. !?!???? It's
been doing this for over 2 days, and nothing I had tried (restarting the
remote system, restarting RD, rebooting my Vista system, etc) affected it.
And this morning it "fixed itself." And then an hour or so later it
started doing it again, and then it fixed itself again. Urghghhh

So unless you have any recommendations, ...
Gary