Desktop Icons scambled using Remote Desktop

[zarbiker]

Hi,

When I use Vista on one of my networked PC's to remote into another one
of my Vista PC's using Remote Desktop the desktop Icons of the remote PC are
rearranged/scrambled after the session ends. There are quite a number of
Icons arranged for easy access to frequently accessed programs, URLs, disk
locations, etc. Having them scrambled each time I connect with RDC is quite
a time waster. After performing some searches on the internet for people
having the same problem I found that a number of Vista users had similar
complaints and it seemed related to a discrepancy in the monitor resolution
of the local and remote PC's. The monitor resolutions on my local and my
remote PC's are, in fact, different. The screen resolution of my remote is
larger than that of the local. I found one person who claimed that tailoring
the RDP connection specification file to force a certain screen resolution
behavior might help. It sounded reasonable, I tried it and it failed.
Has anyone experienced this problem and, if so, do they have a solution.
If not, then as a circumvention, I would be happy to utilize whatever feature
Vista may have that lets you save/restore a desktop layout (if there is one).

Thanks,

 

[Sooner Al [MVP]]

Create an .rdp file using 1024x768 as the resolution. Save it then edit the
file using Notepad and set the resolution to whatever your real desktop size
is, ie. 1280x1024 or whatever. The parameters to modify are the desktopwidth
and desktopheight parameters. Save the modified .rdp file then click on the
file to start the session with the modified resolution.

Here is a snippet of an .rdp file for my desktop as an illustration...This
file is on my laptop client...

screen mode id:i:1
desktopwidth:i:1152
desktopheight:i:864

That example works for me where a desktop PC uses 1152x864 while my client
laptop only does 1024x768...

There are also some free icon position save and restore utilities out there.
Here is one as an example.

http://www.enterra-soft.com/products/iconkeeper/

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