Remote Desktop Windows 7

[benbosquared]

Are there any sort of tweaks or registry hacks that will allow you to remote into a windows 7 machine and have it do the multi-display across 2 or more monitors like you can do in Server 2008 R2 with terminal services?

 

[Arainach]

Win7 supports this just fine, you just have to be connecting to Windows 7 Pro/Ultimate target machine (maybe just Ultimate? I forget) and connecting from a Win7 machine.

 

[gimp]

Start -> Run -> mstsc /?

gives you all the switches available.

You can use the /span switch, which will match the remote desktop width and height with the mstsc instance

 

[Sly]

It already works on both my monitors.

Just click the highlighted checkbox.

 

[benbosquared]

It already works on both my monitors.



Just click the highlighted checkbox.

Are you RDP'ing into another windows 7 machine? What version of 7 are you running ?

 

[Sly]

Got a student discount so i actually have Win7 Ultimate on both my netbook and my desktop. I just plugged in the monitor to my netbook to get dual monitor and RDP'ed to the desktop.

If you don't have it, i guess the one initiating the connetion has to be the Ultimate one. Since that checkbox appears before any kind of connection is made. Dunno if the server has to be ultimate as well.

 

[benbosquared]

ok ill give ultimate a try and see since both machines are running Professional

 

[Sly]

It's really useful. I'm hoping to get a slate after Android 3 comes out and be able to use it as a dumb terminal to access my server without going to the computer room. Hopefully it'll be able to handle RDP well.

My jaw dropped when i first tried Win7 RDP after using the XP RDP for years. You can actually watch video in full screen on it! Never bothered installing VNC after that.