Remote desktop full screen mode not going full screen
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Friday, November 20, 2009 2:25 PMHi,
Running Windows 7 RTM x64 on both my PC at home and my workstation at work.
My PC at home has a square monitor and my work PC has a widescreen monitor.
I used webapps (citrix) from home to get into work environment then remoted to my workstation.
Since doing that, when I am physically at the workstation (at work), I can no longer remote desktop to servers in full screen mode. Instead, it does a smaller window with "full screen settings". Basically the full screen remote desktop is about 3/4 size of the monitor, not 100%.
Any help appreciated.
-thanks
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Saturday, November 21, 2009 7:05 AM Hi,
-Start "Remote Desktop Connection".
-Click on "Options".
-Click on the "Display" tab.
-On "Display configuation" settings, you can change the "Remote Desktop Connection" display by moving the slider from "Small to Large".
-By moving the "Slider" all the way to large, the display settings will automatically set to "Full Screen".
Thanks- Proposed As Answer by Dale QiaoModerator Monday, November 23, 2009 9:08 AM
- Marked As Answer by flayofish Monday, November 23, 2009 5:01 PM
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Monday, November 23, 2009 5:01 PM Setting slidebar to full screen did the trick, thanks!
- Proposed As Answer by Rohit Gopidi Thursday, March 22, 2012 8:26 PM
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Wednesday, September 01, 2010 3:10 PM many, MANY thanks - this solved my problem with having to use the scrollbar on an RDP session using Win7 - it was REALLY becoming frustrating - AGAIN THANK YOU
- Proposed As Answer by rightvol Tuesday, November 23, 2010 3:00 AM
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Tuesday, November 23, 2010 3:00 AM
thanks!
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Thursday, December 23, 2010 6:21 PMThank you very much.
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Thursday, December 23, 2010 7:16 PM
Hi,
This does not address the fact that this functionality is broken in basically all version of Remote Desktop Connection. The real problem is that when you switch from RDPing into one machine with a given resolution, and then to another with a different resolution, it always remembers the last resolution, and so you end up with a mismatched RDP window that will not go full screen until you disconnect, then adjust the slider again. FIX THIS!!! It's incredibly annoying. The RDP client should re-detect each time it is connecting to any machine what the full screen resolution should be. God this annoys me every single day.
-Start "Remote Desktop Connection".
-Click on "Options".
-Click on the "Display" tab.
-On "Display configuation" settings, you can change the "Remote Desktop Connection" display by moving the slider from "Small to Large".
-By moving the "Slider" all the way to large, the display settings will automatically set to "Full Screen".
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Thursday, December 23, 2010 10:36 PMI'm with ya @jamieschmidt. Super annoying. For years this has been a problem. If I exit from full screen, I can never get it back, unless I disconnect and reconnect. I need daily counseling because of this. Remote Desktop Team: PLEASE have RD remember your favorite machines and allow you to go back to full screen without an exit. I wish you could also re-size in session, instead of seeing scroll bars.
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Sunday, January 09, 2011 10:49 PM
You can - sortof - go back into full screen mode by pressing Ctrl + Alt + Pause/Break. This allows you to switch without disconnecting and reconnecting, but there are two gotchas:
1. It actually doesn't change the resolution, so it may go into fullscreen mode with the blue bar at the top, but still have scrollbars at the side.
2. Most of the time when I actually want to do this I'm on a notebook which doesn't have a Pause/Break key!! Makes it tricky
I agree that it's kind of broken. I'm often switching between different external monitors with different resolutions and I'm sick of having to always go to the display tab and click full screen. I ALWAYS want it fullscreen!
- Proposed As Answer by ale_guilamo Thursday, January 05, 2012 1:11 PM
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Monday, March 14, 2011 3:20 PM
I seem to be suddenly running into this with XP. Possibly an upgrade was pushed to my desktop while I was away from the office for a week. In any case, I use Remote Desktop to get to all my lab machines and I used to get a small bar across the top with only pin/min/max/close buttons; no scroll bars needed. I was at the full screen of the computer I remoted to. Now my Remote Desktop always opens in an actual window, with borders on 4 sides, and I have to scroll to the bottom to use the START button or task bar, then I have scroll back to the top to fully see what's on the desktop. This scrolling up and down, left and right, is a pain in the neck. I read that I can change the saved RDP file, but I don't know what file that is or how to find it. Do I have to save a different options file for every computer that I remote to?
Thank you, Nancy
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Wednesday, March 23, 2011 4:14 PMThank you!
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Monday, April 04, 2011 1:39 PM
I have this problem too ... On Windows 7.
Dell XPS14 laptop ... No Pause Key ... No Break Key... (ctrl +alt + fn + F12) doesn't work.
The thing that bugs me most is ..... What's changed and WHY?
I've been using remote desktop for years and maximizing always used to send it to full screen.
Now suddenly I can't go to full screen without exiting and resetting the screen size with the slide bar in the options!
WHY ?!?!?!?!?!?
Seems this has been broken in Windows 7. It still works fine as it used to on my old M65 running Vista.Why has this been broken in Windows 7? How come no one at MS noticed?
The marked answer is not acceptable. Sure it works when you initially open the connection but if you minimize or restore the window the problem comes back as before.
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Wednesday, April 06, 2011 12:23 AM Ctrl-Alt-Pause! Oh, perfect! I kept "normalizing" remote desktop, only to find I couldn't go back to fullscreen by maximizing. Thanks a lot!
- Proposed As Answer by NeosTotem Thursday, November 22, 2012 8:51 AM
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Thursday, April 14, 2011 3:46 PM
You can - sortof - go back into full screen mode by pressing Ctrl + Alt + Pause/Break. This allows you to switch without disconnecting and reconnecting, but there are two gotchas:
1. It actually doesn't change the resolution, so it may go into fullscreen mode with the blue bar at the top, but still have scrollbars at the side.
2. Most of the time when I actually want to do this I'm on a notebook which doesn't have a Pause/Break key!! Makes it tricky
I agree that it's kind of broken. I'm often switching between different external monitors with different resolutions and I'm sick of having to always go to the display tab and click full screen. I ALWAYS want it fullscreen!
The Ctrl + Alt + Pause/Break function worked great for me. Thanks !!! -
Thursday, May 05, 2011 7:51 PM
For laptop users without a Pause/Break there is usually a function button (Fn) that will give you access to secondary key functions. (Pause is in blue on my F12 key.)
Ctrl+Alt+Fn+Pause
This worked for me.
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Friday, May 06, 2011 4:58 AMTHANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS!!!!!!!!!!!! i was about to throw my brand new laptop out the window after leaving hate mail on my microsofty-friend's facebook wall. :) why would anyone not want to max/"full screen" ??????!!!!!!!!!!!
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Monday, May 23, 2011 5:46 AMThe CTRL + ALT + Break works for me too!! You must made my working life less frustrating. Thank you!
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Wednesday, September 07, 2011 12:16 AM
I have this problem too ... On Windows 7.
Dell XPS14 laptop ... No Pause Key ... No Break Key... (ctrl +alt + fn + F12) doesn't work.
The thing that bugs me most is ..... What's changed and WHY?
I've been using remote desktop for years and maximizing always used to send it to full screen.
Now suddenly I can't go to full screen without exiting and resetting the screen size with the slide bar in the options!
WHY ?!?!?!?!?!?
Seems this has been broken in Windows 7. It still works fine as it used to on my old M65 running Vista.Why has this been broken in Windows 7? How come no one at MS noticed?
The marked answer is not acceptable. Sure it works when you initially open the connection but if you minimize or restore the window the problem comes back as before.
Hi, I'm on a Dell Inspiron N5010 and for me, the winning combination was Ctrl-Alt-Fn-F6. Toggles full screen and windowed screen. -
Wednesday, September 28, 2011 1:01 AM
And I'm on a Lenovo ThinkPad Edge, and for me the magic combo was Ctrl-Alt-Fn-P. Thanks!Hi, I'm on a Dell Inspiron N5010 and for me, the winning combination was Ctrl-Alt-Fn-F6. Toggles full screen and windowed screen. -
Tuesday, October 04, 2011 2:20 PM
Also, make sure the "Use all my monitors for the remote session" box underneath the slider bar is unchecked if you have two differing monitor resolutions, because it will select the smaller of the two in order to make it completely fit on both screens. Likewise, if you switch from a larger screen height inside of your RDP session, you will still see the scrollbars because the RDP client recognizes the larger of the screens as the "Full Screen" option.
There is definitely work that can be done to make this process less painful. Step your game up, MS.
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Sunday, October 09, 2011 4:35 AM
Thanks Buddy, It worked problem solved......
Hi,
-Start "Remote Desktop Connection".
-Click on "Options".
-Click on the "Display" tab.
-On "Display configuation" settings, you can change the "Remote Desktop Connection" display by moving the slider from "Small to Large".
-By moving the "Slider" all the way to large, the display settings will automatically set to "Full Screen".
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Thursday, October 13, 2011 1:18 PMIt did the trick. Great. Thanks
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Sunday, October 30, 2011 6:48 PM
Thanks for the post, it helped me to recall the key combination.
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Monday, November 28, 2011 8:44 PM I find that minimizing (the flat line icon) the remote window versus restoring down (the stacked windows icon) allows me to resume full screen mode. It requires some retraining but works effectively. Unfortunately I've been unsuccessful with any of the Alt-Fn-Cntrl solutions :( Happy Holidays!
- Proposed As Answer by Pooka Head Monday, November 28, 2011 8:44 PM
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Tuesday, December 06, 2011 5:42 PMthanq so much...
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Friday, December 23, 2011 2:06 PM
Hi,
Thanks a lot, this worked for me.
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012 3:31 AM
Please use the color depth of the remote session as Hghest Quality (32 bit). this will fix it out
- Proposed As Answer by Ravishna Tuesday, January 10, 2012 3:42 AM
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012 2:37 AMMy XPS laptop takes cnt-alt-fn-delete as the combo to toggle full screen remote desktop
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012 8:14 PMThank you so much. This worked for me like a charm :)
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012 7:02 AMThanks for information
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Thursday, March 22, 2012 8:26 PMThanks for the information.. That Works !!
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012 8:18 AMThank you... it work for me
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Tuesday, April 03, 2012 3:35 PM
Thank you very much. This has been an issue for me and that's all it took. Much thanks
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Monday, May 21, 2012 12:51 PMTa muchly
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Wednesday, June 13, 2012 2:13 PM
Thanks!
This post must be marked as answer. ;)
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Friday, June 15, 2012 5:31 AMClutch. Thanks for nailing that. I am embarassed to have suffered through the issue so long.
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Saturday, June 23, 2012 4:40 PMThank you, dariomartinezb!!! After upgrading my VPN, I all of a sudden couldn't get the RD window to maximize, but Ctrl-Alt-Fn-F6 did the trick!! Thanks for having the same laptop as well :)
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Wednesday, July 11, 2012 7:28 AM
Thank you very much. Today was the first time I used remote desktop in Win7 and I got this problem. I tried to do every other thing and saw the slider too, but never thought that moving it to the extreme will make it go full screen.
Thanks a lot, dude. Have a good day!
Regards, Tan (A Monarch is honored in his own country; a learned man, throughout the world!)
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Monday, July 30, 2012 5:33 AM
Hi AaronThorpe,
Thanks for the wonderful findings! I'm having quite a trouble with my RDP sessions if I've accidentally restored to windows mode, but with Ctrl+Alt+Break, this problem is solved :)
Btw, Microsoft has released a hotfix to address this issue. It seems that this issue occur when running with the resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels. No wonder my home laptop running 1280 x 1024 pixels doesn't experience this problem, but my office laptop does. For those who cannot reset to full mode (eg. your keyboard doesn't have Break), this hotfix should help:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2582172
- Proposed As Answer by WoodJB Monday, October 29, 2012 4:16 PM
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Tuesday, August 07, 2012 5:54 PMThanks alot.
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012 1:21 PM
Thanks ..
This also works for me...
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Wednesday, October 03, 2012 5:21 AM
Hi,
Thanks
-Start "Remote Desktop Connection".
-Click on "Options".
-Click on the "Display" tab.
-On "Display configuation" settings, you can change the "Remote Desktop Connection" display by moving the slider from "Small to Large".
-By moving the "Slider" all the way to large, the display settings will automatically set to "Full Screen".
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012 8:15 AMNice one, did this by accident once, But for love or money could not work it out again..
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Thursday, October 25, 2012 8:59 AMThis IS the REAL answer for the above mentioned problem. Thanks.
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012 4:40 AM
Hi shgtss thx for awesome answer now my remote is full screen
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Saturday, November 03, 2012 4:47 PMHi Thank for Valuable information
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Thursday, November 15, 2012 5:37 AM
Hi,
Please try the following
Cntrl + Fn + Alt + insert
- Proposed As Answer by Charmy Vora Thursday, November 15, 2012 5:37 AM
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Thursday, November 22, 2012 7:57 PMCtrl + Alt + Pause/Break is exactly what I was looking for - thanks! Note that on a notebook computer, you'll likely have to do Ctrl + Alt + Pause + Fn, since there's no separate Pause/Break key.
- Edited by Mark Riordan Thursday, November 22, 2012 7:58 PM
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Wednesday, December 05, 2012 5:33 PM
Hi, If you don´t have pause key (Like my vostro 3450 and many others...) we´re screwed up, the only way is double clicking the title bar (windows basics), much for minimize like for full screen back.
Now, if you have a multi-monitor this trick only works in the display where you started the full screen.
As last resource you may restart your RDP connection with "mstsc /f" command to avoid reconfiguring your RDP like they said above
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Thursday, April 04, 2013 1:40 PM
Life saver, connect to up to 100 servers during a normal day and was pulling hair out. Virtual drink on its way to you
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