Hi,

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

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

Setting slidebar to full screen did the trick, thanks!

• Proposed as answer by Rohit Gopidi Thursday, March 22, 2012 8:26 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

thanks!

Thank you very much.

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

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.

I'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.

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

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 

Thank you!

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.

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

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 !!!

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.

THANK 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" ??????!!!!!!!!!!!

The CTRL + ALT + Break works for me too!! You must made my working life less frustrating. Thank you!

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.

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.

And I'm on a Lenovo ThinkPad Edge, and for me the magic combo was Ctrl-Alt-Fn-P. Thanks!

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.

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".

Thanks

It did the trick.  Great.  Thanks

Thanks for the post, it helped me to recall the key combination.

 

 

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

thanq so much...

Hi,

Thanks a lot, this worked for me.

 

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

My XPS laptop takes cnt-alt-fn-delete as the combo to toggle full screen remote desktop

Thank you so much. This worked for me like a charm :)

Thanks for information

Thanks for the information.. That Works !!

Thank you... it work for me

Thank you very much. This has been an issue for me and that's all it took. Much thanks

Ta muchly

Thanks!

This post must be marked as answer. ;)

Clutch.  Thanks for nailing that.  I am embarassed to have suffered through the issue so long.

Thank 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 :)

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!

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

Thanks alot.

Thanks ..

This also works for me...

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

Thanks

Nice one, did this by accident once, But for love or money could not work it out again..

This IS the REAL answer for the above mentioned problem. Thanks.

Hi shgtss thx for awesome answer now my remote is full screen

Hi Thank for Valuable information

Hi,

Please try the following

Cntrl + Fn + Alt + insert

• Proposed as answer by Charmy Vora Thursday, November 15, 2012 5:37 AM

Ctrl + 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

Hi, If you dont have pause key (Like my vostro 3450 and many others...) were 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

Life saver, connect to up to 100 servers during a normal day and was pulling hair out. Virtual drink on its way to you

Thanks ...it works.

Thanks buddy........really helpful

I am on a Lenovo ThinkPad X1, and my winning RDP fullscreen shortcut combination was Ctrl-Alt-Fn-B. Hope this helps someone!

Thanks

Great Work

Thanks

Hi Team,

Currently Use office Windows 7 (32 bit) in my System but i want netmeeting from my Partner System use in Windows XP Service Pack 3 . so I wan't take remote or  trobuleshooting  Partner System Some Issue Citrix issue...

I don't use Netmeeting  ......

Windows 7 use  Run MSRA

Not to take Netmeeting in Windows XP

Regards,

Subodh.

Thanks. its help me....

Thank you very much. Solved my problem. :)

Thank you. It really helped me a lot.

Thank You!! :)

THANK YOU!!! I was going nuts wondering what the heck happened!!! This provided resolution for me :)

Thanks for the tip !!!  It helped me a lot .

Thank you

Ctrl + Alt + Pause Break works well for me. Thanks

• Edited by Ramkumar Murugesan Thursday, June 19, 2014 11:23 AM

simply perfect thanks for sharing.

Try using Fn+Ctrl+Alt+B to switch between FULL SCREEN and Normal mode. I have an LENOVA T430 laptop that does not have PAUSE or BREAK key but using this option works. I believe Fn+B does the same job as that of BREAK.

-Anil Dubey

• Edited by AnilDubey Thursday, July 10, 2014 6:30 PM

EDIT -- Removing my old post, because I discovered it was false.

I had a similar issue but with using a secondary monitor attached to my laptop (Lenovo T430) that was a higher resolution than the internal panel.  The Terminal Services window would always seem to either max out at the full screen resolution of my smaller panel when full screened on the big monitor... or would launch on my internal panel in full screen mode instead of the second monitor like I wanted.

Solution to launch full screen on second monitor:

• Launch terminal services client like normal.
• Drop out of full screen into windowed mode and drag it over, fully, to the secondary monitor.
• Close the terminal services client on the second monitor  (This seems to make it save the last position information so it launches on the secondary monitor on the next start)
• Relaunch and change the Options > Display slider to full screen  (Verify you can also see your secondary screens full resolution  like 1920x1200 in my case)

That works for me over DisplayPort or VGA.

• Edited by Phaxmohdem Tuesday, November 18, 2014 7:33 PM

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It was an easy solution yet we search on the internet instead of looking all the available options...LOL!

Thanks again!

Thank you sir, appreciate it.

Thank you!

Solved my problem. 

Thanks

Helped me a lot 

Thank you.