connecting with Windows 7 Ultimate 7100 32bit to the same version. lets call the two computers MediaOne and WorkingOne I use to connect from the WorkingOne to the MediaOne via RDP when I log physically to the MediaOne computer (the one which is later going to be rdp host) and stay logged, and I go to the WorkingOne computer and log to the MediaOne via remote desktop -> everything works ok, I can only close the RD window and then reconnect again, I can go to the remote one and log on physically etc when I do not log on physically first and I just connect via remote desktop the behaviour is as follows: after closing the rdp window (not logging off, because I need some programs on MediaOne to keep running) and trying to log on via rdp again the rdp shows welcome screen and then some error message (its about "the user is connected yet" I assume) and the rdp ahuts down. Trying to log physically on MediaOne is never successfull, welcome screen is shown but suddenly logging screen is back. only solution is restarting the computer. And one thing more: I have set my desktop on the MediaOne computer to display larger texts (200%DPI). when I log on physically first and then via RDP, the remote desktop displays larger texts and all the icons look like I was physically present on the remote desktop. When I connect straight via RDP without logging on physically first, the desktop is looking like it was unconfigured, like I never used it, no larger text and icons are in the default positions. is it a bug or is it a feature? thank you. ps: it's fine to see that win7 has still the same problem which was reported on Vista in March 2009 :) what are these forums for so?

Hi,I followed your tips to perform mutiple tests on our test machines. 1. For your first concern, I didn't see the behaviour as yours, I can close the rdp window, reconnect or log on physically no matter if the remote computer is physically logged on previously. Regarding your issue, I suspect it may be due to user profile. Have you tried with other user accounts? If you own another computer running Windows 7, you can test to see how it works.2. As your second concern,the behavior occurs the same on my test machines. Please understand it will take some time from reporting to make some actions, I would like to report it. BTW, according to my understaning, because we can't change the display settings from the remote session,when the remote computer isn't physically logged on, the RDP can't get the display settings before launching the desktop, it uses the default display settings. However,whentheremote computeris physically logged on previously, it has already applied theconfigured displaysettings,the RDP can get the configured display settings before launching the desktop. Thanks for your efforts. Best RegardsDale

thank you very much for your reaction. @1) the same problem was described here by somebody for example. I have perhaps another hint. Maybe it's normal behaviour but: after opening RDP client and typing the name of the machine to connect to and clicking 'connect', a window with a user account pops up. The local machine account is prepared as the default one. At least it looks so because the local machine user account icon is displayed. I tried to use the remote machine's user account so I wrote "\\remoteMachineName\userAccount", then I entered password and tried to connect. The window reappeared with the remote machine's user account icon displayed and error message about unsuccesfull logging in. The login details were entered correctly, I even copied and pasted them to ensure their correctness, I remind - both the accounts are same name and same password. when I use the local account to connect to remote machine, it works the way described above. Another detail to mention is that the remote machine is nVidia ION based, I found on the internet that nVidia's drivers and MS RemoteDesktop conflicted some way. All the drivers are up to date. So it could be another hint. @2) I stated it only as a possible hint. From the user's point of view it's maybe even better to have the possibility to make display settings for remote desktop separatly. Thank you again for your time and reactions, I hope I can help a little. EDIT: oh a question more: "I suspect it may be due to user profile" - yes, it looks so, but what would you suspect in detail, could you be more concrete please? thank you