Color Depth in Remote Desktop

[Guest]

I was playing around with a trial copy of Windows Server 2003 and discovered
that it is possible to increase terminal services color depth to 24bit. On
Windows XP Professional the color depth of remote desktop seems to be set at
16 bit.

Is it possible to increase the color depth of XP Pro Remote desktop to 24
bit or is this a server only feature?

Thanks

 

[Kenny S]

Perhaps your client display adaptor is set to 16 bit?

Because I have XP pro and it can work with 24 bit color.

 

[Guest]

No, I am talking about setting the host to 24 bit color. Is it possible to
set an XP Pro remote desktop host to 24 bit color?

 

[Kenny S]

What I am trying to tell you the color depth that the client sees depends
only on the
settings of the RDP CLIENT.

It has nothing to do with the display mode of the host.

you could have a host with a vga adaptor only capable of 256 colors,

yet a client could connect in 24 bit color.

 

[Guest]

I suggest that you try and login to a windows xp host. Then, go to control
panel, display, settings. 16 bit color will be selected and it is impossible
to increase it - even if the RDP client has been set to 24 bit color. With
Windows Server 2003, it is possible to configure the host to 24 bit color.

Hence the question, is there any way to configure a windows xp host to 24
bit color?

 

[Guest]

Hey, I solved the problem by adding a snap-in in MMC. i am using XP Pro
though, this should be the solution for you as well.

Try following this description

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;278502&sd=tech

I didn´t apply totally to my OS because step 4 was a little different I
noticed, had to play around a bit.

Good luck!

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the reply. I did actually solve this problem myself using group
policy a couple of months ago. Thanks anyway.