My remote desktop setup

A problem I've had with remote desktop is wanting to resize the remote window and still have a pleasant experience.  This enables smart sizing and sends windows key combinations to the remote machine.

Remote desktop experience

Fixup the Default remote desktop settings

First of all start mstsc and show all options.  Ensure the following is set:

• Display tab
• Display Configuration: Full screen
• Local resources 
• Apply windows key combinations: On the remote computer

Go back to the General tab and click Save As...

In your My Documents folder, save it as Default.rdp.  This is a hidden file with the default settings for your system.  There should be a popup box bleating about overwriting.

Enable smart sizing

Edit the Default.rdp file mentioned above and add the following to the end of it.

smart sizing:i:1

This enables smart sizing.

Remote to multiple machines

I regularly remote into multiple machines.  This is how I've setup my systems to make life easy.

• Create a folder called RDP for storing the remote desktop property files
• I store mine in Dropbox so it's shared across multiple machines
• Right click a blank area in your taskbar
• Toolbars -> New Toolbar
• Select the RDP folder
• You now have quick way of accessing your RDP saves

• Start mstsc and click Show Options
• Enter the computer name and user name to store
• Click Save As and save the RDP file in your RDP folder