Windows 7 – RDP for High DPI Monitors

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A client is having some problems with their laptop. They use RDP to remote into their work PC, but the laptop they are using is a small 13" Sony Vaio laptop, but with 1920×1080 resolution.

Everything is pretty small on the laptop anyway, but the problem is much worse after connecting with RDP, where everything is almost unreadable.

I have done the obvious with changing the resolution on the server, the RDP size, forced scaling on the terminal server etc, but nothing has worked.

Something else which I would normally do is change the laptop resolution to something a little lower, but the laptop only has 2 resolution settings, the big one, and a 1024×768 (wrong ratio).

Any ideas?

Best Answer

I found a solution, which is not to bother looking for a remote desktop client that can resize , zoom or scale, but instead found some software called "NRC", or "Netbook Resolution Customizer".

It enables more resolutions to choose from, and even set hotkeys to switch between them.

http://www.netbookfiles.com/1/netbook-resolution-customizer-version-10-beta2/

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