Maximize Remote desktop but not to full screen

Question

I have been using remote desktop at my office and have been using it in maximized mode, but not in full screen mode. When I press maximize, it covers the entire window but doesn't move to full screen.

Recently I formatted system and now when I maximize the window, it switches to full screen. I really don't want full screen, because I would like to be able to see my taskbar, but I want the remote desktop window maximized. Could anybody please tell me how to maximize the window without switching to full screen.

Answer 1

1. Launch Remote Desktop Connection.
2. Click Options and switch to Display tab.
3. Drag the slider under Display configuration from Large (Full Screen) to one tick down.
4. Click Connect to check the issue.

Answer 2

You can launch Remote Desktop with height and width parameters. If you set these to be slightly smaller than your display size, it will take up almost all the screen, will still show your task bar and will not display scroll bars:

As detailed in this answer, launch Remote Desktop with the following parameters:

/w:[width] and /h:[height]

I have a 1280 x 1024 screen size, so it works if I run the following:

mstsc.exe /w:1270 /h:960

Modify the parameters to suit your size screen, then go to Start > Run, and paste it there. Hit OK to run it. You may have to maximise the window to take up the full dimensions you have set.

Incidentally, every time you run Remote Desktop afterwards it should remember these settings without you telling it to. If it does 'forget', just save it as a shortcut and run that every time.

Answer 3

None of the other answers worked for me, I always got a vertical and horizontal scroll bar. But I also noticed that on the drop down from the RD menu "Smart Sizing" was greyed out and could not change. Some more searching and I found that I could edit the Default.rdp file with a text editor, and added the following line:

smart sizing:i:1

Now everything works as expected.

Answer 4

I also like to configure the remote desktop so that the window opens directly in maximized form, but not in full screen, so that you can continue to see the windows toolbar of your pc, and it is also still comfortable to switch between applications with Alt+Tab.

To do this you must edit the .rdp file with a text editor, and play with the following parameters (example for a 1680x1050 remote desktop resolution on a 1920x1200 pc screen):

screen mode id:i:1
use multimon:i:0
desktopwidth:i:1680
desktopheight:i:1050
winposstr:s:0,1,50,10,2000,1150

The key parameter for this is the winposstr parameter.

• The first three values ​​"s:0,1" I do not change.
• The fourth value (50) would correspond to the x coordinate (I like to leave a little margin).
• The fifth value (10) would correspond to the y coordinate (a little margin too).
• The sixth value (2000) is the width of the remote desktop window (I usually give it more size and the window will fit to the maximum automatically).
• The seventh value (1150) is the height of the remote desktop window (also, I usually give it more size and the window will fit to the maximum automatically).

In this way, the remote desktop window will open in a maximized way (without scroll bars) but not in full screen.

Answer 5

Hi you can use windows shortcut option: Ctrl+Alt+Break

Answer 6

Using these settings for the .rdp file I was able to get a full-screened yet windowed mode going. I retrieved them using RemoteDesktopManager, creating a new connection there and exporting the settings to RDP.

connection.rdp

full address:s:XXX
screen mode id:i:1
desktopwidth:i:1920
desktopheight:i:1017
winposstr:s:0,3,0,0,1920,1017
smart sizing:i:1

Answer 7

I tried to fix mine- I am remoting into work through my laptop and connecting to a wide screen through HDMI. I did what the first answer said by clicking the remote desktop connector, then options arrow, the display tab. Mine was already set at full screen, so I reduce it, click okay, closed it, open again and increased it and it worked. I guess I made it refresh.