When using Windows’ Remote Desktop Connection to access other Windows machines, I don’t like to have it running full screen, as I’m usually working with many other applications on my local computer at the same time. My primary monitor resolution is set to 1680×1050, but with the taskbar and the RDC window border and title bar, I can’t set the RDC resolution to 1280×1024 without having to scroll to see everything. The next step down in the RDC options is 1280×720, which is a bit too disproportionate for me.
Long story short, you can actually set the RDC window to whatever resolution you desire, using a couple of switches for mstsc.exe (the executable for the Remote Desktop Connection application).
Use the /w: switch to set the width, and the /h: switch to set the height. Simple enough, right? The example below would launch the RDC application with the resolution of your RDC window set to 1280×925. Note that the custom resolution won’t show up in the options for your session, but when you connect to your computer of choice, the window will be the size you specified.
- mstsc.exe /w:1280 /h:925
