Tuesday, 1 June 2010

Remote Desktop Connection - Always use fullscreen

On my OS (XP Professional), the remote desktop client is mstsc.exe, and I always want my remote desktop connections fullscreen. Now it is clever enough to re-use the last session display size, and in most use cases that probably works fine.

My problem is that sometimes I work on my laptop directly, and other times through a docking station. When I switch between them I always find that the remote desktop client has changed the last display size from 'Full screen' to whatever the resolution was in the previous setup - which I have found very annoying!

Today I found my answer. I have the shortcut to this tool in my start menu, and the exe takes a /f switch to indicate fullscreen. So all I needed to do was to change my shortcut to "%SystemRoot%\system32\mstsc.exe /f".

Voila! Whenever I use the shortcut it always defaults to fullscreen! Just the way I like it.

10 comments:

  1. Thank you so much. Helped a lot. Had been struggling with the exact same thing.

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  2. Thanks . Saved me ..........

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  3. pure awesomeness, that's what this is!

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  4. This rocks! One less annoyance in my life - thank you.

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  5. Thanks dude. Was annoying me senseless

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  6. Beautiful - I have been getting angry about this for a while and never took the time to solve the issue. Single google search and your solution was right on top

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