Remote Desktop Connetion displays Very Small Icons and Jump Lists on Remote Machine

On my remote machine, the desktop icons, icon titles, taskbar and jump lists are puny, very difficult to read the small font size.

I've tried all of the various display/sizing options in my Surface's control panel, and also the display setting tab in Remote Desktop Connection, and have not found any comnbination that works well on the remote and Surface Pro 3. (Also, the sizing options are not so convenient anyway since a sign out is generally needed.)

 I've never had this problem and regularly use RDP on various machines. Are there others with RDP display issues?

Yes, probably the only way to go around this issue is to change the resolution in the Surface before you connect to the Remote Machine.

This is because of the high resolution and relatively small screen of the Surface.  To mitigate this affect, your Surface applies display scaling on it's local screen.  However, when you're making a RDP connection to a remote machine, the remote machine doesn't know to apply this scaling.  It further appears that you can't apply this setting in a remote session, so that kinda sucks.

On my remote machine, the desktop icons, icon titles, taskbar and jump lists are puny, very difficult to read the small font size.

I've tried all of the various display/sizing options in my Surface's control panel, and also the display setting tab in Remote Desktop Connection, and have not found any comnbination that works well on the remote and Surface Pro 3. (Also, the sizing options are not so convenient anyway since a sign out is generally needed.)

 I've never had this problem and regularly use RDP on various machines. Are there others with RDP display issues?

Ok here is a good workaround.

1- Download this tool, create a file and add your remote machine.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=21101

2. In the display tab unselect this option

3- Connect to your remote machine.

Now you will see everything in the native resolution of the remote machine.

>> 1- Download this tool, create a file and add your remote machine.

>> http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=21101

I'm connecting from Surface 3 Pro to Windows 8.1 Pro. The Remote Desktop Connection Manager does not state that it's Win 8.1 compatible.

Can I still use RDCM?

Do I install it on the Remote machine?

Where would I add the file to the remote machine?

>> 1- Download this tool, create a file and add your remote machine.

>> http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=21101

I'm connecting from Surface 3 Pro to Windows 8.1 Pro. The Remote Desktop Connection Manager does not state that it's Win 8.1 compatible.

Can I still use RDCM?

Do I install it on the Remote machine?

Where would I add the file to the remote machine?

That screen shot is from my Surface PRO 3. You don't need to install it in the remote machine.