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

Anonymous
2014-06-28T22:12:39+00:00

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?

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-12-17T14:56:19+00:00

    HI

    we use RoyalTS on all our devices, do you use it on the Surface Pro? I just got a SP4 and using RoyalTS, connecting to Win Server 2003/2008/2008 R2 the icons are tiny and unusable.. its fine with Win 2012/R2 just not prior..

    How did you get it to work?

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-12-17T15:36:07+00:00

    How did you get it to work?

     Using Remote Desktop Connection Manager version 2.2, downloadable from Microsoft, all I needed to do was change the connection properties to display at Full Screen. 

    When connecting to a Win10 machine, this is not an issue as the standard RDC program/app work properly with default settings.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-01-28T10:28:23+00:00

    Thanks a lot. Your reply really helped me. It may solve the problem. Best regards!

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-02-10T15:47:01+00:00

    Can someone give me  a step-by-step here?  I'm trying to fix my Surface, I see the suggestion to go to Server settings and uncheck the "Inherit" thing, but no input on how to get to said setting.  Is that setting on the computer I'm connecting to or my Surface that I'm using to connect? Also, I'm using Windows Ten, which I'm horribly unfamiliar with (and not a big fan of right now).  I'm getting the small icons whenever I use the RDC.  Any suggestions that would help here?

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-02-10T16:22:29+00:00

    Good info!  Any solution?

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