Scaling Remote Desktop To The Client Window Size?
Mar 23, 2008
Isn't there a way to scale the 'Remote Desktop' host desktop to the window size on the remote client? We would like the host desktop to automatically shrink-to-fit the window on our remote client computer, much like the option available in 'Remote Assistance'. So far, our only option is to view the host desktop at full-size in a smaller remote client window with scroll bars that allow us to scroll to different areas of the host desktop. Is there not an option that forces the host desktop to shrink-to-fit the clent 'Remote Desktop' window?
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Mar 22, 2009
I'm running Vista Home Premium 64 bit on a new HP pavilion laptop. I'm trying to log into my work system remotely. The error I'm getting is "This computer can't connect to the remote computer. Remote desktop cannot find the remote computer. Type the computer name or IP address again, and then try connecting" I've tried the help desk at work, they say they know there has been issues with people loggin in with Vista, but its been resolved. But they have not actually been able to help me log in. They are running Windows NT.
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Mar 26, 2009
I've been trying to set up a remote desktop connection between my laptop and my desktop both running on Vista Home Premium. Why does this error come up:
"This computer can't connect to the remote computer."
when they are both connected (wirelessly) via the same network.
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Sep 8, 2009
I am stumped as to an issue I am having using remote desktop. I have several machines in the office that have been using RD for a while without issue. All are XP SP 3 machines. I have a new Vista Ultimate machine that I am trying to remote to with an XP machine. I have set up RD on the Vista Machine, Firewall is checked, forwarded to the correct port, set the port rule on the router...all the typical issues I am aware of. Everytime I try to connect I get "This computer can't connect to the remote computer. Try connecting again. If the problem continues, contact the owner of the remote computer or your network administrator." I can ping the Vista machine and I can remote from the vista machine to any RD enabled machine.
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Apr 15, 2008
I use 'Computer' (use to be called Windows Explorer) a lot in Windows Vista Home Premium to manage my hard drive. It's a nuisance that it starts up as a too small window and I have to stretch it each time to see more. Is there a way to force it to memorize the previous state and restore?
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Dec 23, 2009
When I go from my desktop to my internet homepage (yahoo), I sometimes get a small window , and sometimes get a whole-page size window. I prefer the whole-page size without having to click that middle restore button on the upper right-hand corner of my screen everytime I go to my homepage. First, what are the names that describe the smaller size window, and the larger one? Is that what a thumbnail is? Second, I must presume there's a setting somewhere, where I can toggle the whole-page size preference when I go from my desktop to homepage. Can you tell me if there is, and how do I get to it?
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Nov 12, 2009
Running Windows Vista and Internet Explorer. Don't know what I did, but now when I open a new window with a link off of my homepage it will open a new window at only about 1/4 size. How do I fix it to open a full page?
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Aug 22, 2009
I have a vista home premium sp1. Under Remote Settings, I see Allow this computer to be controlled remotely option checked but I don't see the screen for Remote Desktop (control / management). UAC is turned on. How come?
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Apr 6, 2009
I use Vista Home Premium. I have an open source app that I want to be maximized when launched. How can I do this?
I've tried maximizing in 2 ways:
- Using the small square at the top right.
- Dragging the corners of the window to fill the screen.
In both cases, if I close and then re-open, the window has its default size.
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Jun 3, 2009
My Windows dialog boxes are too small to display all the text they contain. And as we know, these verdammt boxes are not resizable. Up to now, this has been a minor annoyance, but now it's a major one: it's keeping me from completing the Vista x64 SP2 patch install.
As you can see in the attachments, the window text is just too big. It overflows the sides of the dialog. And because the SP2 EULA screen requires that you view all its text, and I can't, I never get an active "NEXT" button to proceed with the installation. Changing screen res does not help.
I've tried Personalize > Windows Color and Appearance > Open Classic Appearance Properties to reset the Window Text size, but the option to do this is grayed out. I've tried the registry hack found on this board to try and substitute a smaller font, but no go. I've tried several hackware proggies to try and force unresizeable windows to resize, but no joy there either. I've also tried Chris Pirillo's Vista Font Fix to no avail
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Mar 16, 2009
Is there an app similar to wordpad that can store window size and position for each file. I'm using it like a stick-it note. One file may contain to do list, which I size to a small window since each line is very short, another file may contain rebates status which would have a wider window, etc.
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Mar 25, 2009
When I open windows explorer menu it opens at a smaller window size then I'd like it to, so I resize it and close it but the next time that I open it from right clicking on the start menu and choosing explore, it opens at the same position and small size and isn't holding the window resizing that I did... What I've tried so far to make the window size "stick":
1. Use the Windows Explorer "ALT" key to bring up the File menu at the top of the explorer and choose "close" after resizing my Explorer window.
2. Made sure that the "Remember each folder's view settings" is checked. I've also unchecked it, chose apply, then recheck marked it and chose apply just in case it needed refreshing.
3. Used the "X" button at the top right of the window to close it after resizing it to the size that I want. And finally
4. Chose the upper left corner menu (the one with Restore, Minimize, Move, Close in it) and chosen Close...............
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May 30, 2008
I am trying to connect to my Vista Ultimate 32 machine from an XP Professional machine. I can't get a connection or even an attempt at a connection. Here is what I've tried so far.
- I turned off the Windows firewall.
- I am connecting from another computer inside my network.
- I have tried both the (less secure) and (more secure) options in the Remote desktop area.
- I have tried to telnet to my machine to port 3389 and it fails to connect.
- I can ping the machine, see shared directories and connect to remote management.
- I have turned on all services having to do with remote access and terminal services.
So just clarify, it isn't a router issue, I am just trying to connect from one machine to another inside my network. Once I get that working, I will setup the router. I have been searching around for a while trying to find the answer to this problem. I have seen a hundred posts related to this topic but they all seem to end to at "try to telnet to port 3389" with no further responses
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Jan 12, 2010
I'll preface this with the fact I am only so knowledgeable about this IP stuff. I am all my computer challenged family has to rely on so I want to be able to see what happening on about three other computers in three different locations. I am a serious cheapskate so I tried some Shareware called "Anyplace control" worked great through the online account but slow. There is apparently a direct connection option but I need a static ip to make that happen. So keeping it as simplistic as possible for me how do I get my mother Vista laptop, my two daughters Win 7 laptops able to be remote tweaked from either my Vista laptop or XP desktop. I am not locked into that software it was just easiest at the time.
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May 30, 2008
I have a new Lenovo with Vista for business OS (that replaces my old thinkpad on XP). At my office, I am able to use remote desktop connection to remotely operate my work pc (a VISTA business OS) - by attaching to the work network by wire. However, at home I use the VPN to connect to the work network. THe VPN connects just fine but the RDC comes up with the error message "This computer can't connect to the remote PC." At home I have a 3 PC wired network with the notebook being one of the connections. THe other PCs are XP pro's and can connect via the VPN and RDC to my work PC with no problems.
I've read the posts and it seems there isn't a clear answer to this problem. Also, if there is a fix that affects my home network, then what happens when I'm traveling and use the broadband connection in a hotel? If the issue is opening ports, I'll need some help as my experience with my router (netgear) is basic to moderate. I need to resolve this as I leave town in a week for business and I need to connect
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Mar 23, 2008
Is any one using Vista to log into an computer with XP ? I am reading that we can't do this with Vista to XP. I was thinking of getting a new computer and do that. I have been using XP Home Edition and Logging into my XP pro ok. But what I read is Vista will not let us do that.
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Jun 13, 2008
I can't connect using remote desktop from home (xp) to my office pc (Vista business)
1) From home I can access succesfully (using remote desktop) all computers except
the one that runs Vista
2) From my office I can access succesfully my vista PC for example using an Xp of one of my collegue.
In other words
1) I can access vista from local network (remore desktop) without any problem
2) I can access all pc (remote desktop) from home except the one that runs vista
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Nov 12, 2009
I'm going to go nuts. I VPN into work all the time. All of a sudden, 2 days ago I cannot connect to my computer. I am running Vista 32 Home. I am running XP Pro at work. The VPN connects, but when I attempt to log into my computer, it just sits there with the blue screen and the small window dialog for about 20 seconds, then closes. The PC Tech guy was able to Remote Desktop into my computer from his, but I can not longer do it from here. So, before I toss it out the window and go MAC
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Dec 13, 2009
HP notebook with Vista Home Premium with all current patches. I'm trying to turn on remote desktop so that I can access the machine from my desktop machine but following the help instructions gets me nowhere. The closest I can get is "remote assistance" but that isn't what I want. Where am I going wrong?
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Mar 24, 2008
Just installed SP1 on Vista Business here at work and now we are unable to RDP to a Windows 2000 box that we use. Is there some new elevated privileges canceling this out that we can disable and go back to? Error: Because of a protocol error, this session will be disconnected. Please try connecting to the remote computer again. The server is up that I'm telneting too (we have XP machines that reach it fine) and I can telnet to it from the Vista machine.
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Mar 15, 2010
This is strange. I have two nearly identical HP laptops. Both are the same model, but one (that gives trouble) has some additional hardware (video) features. Both are running Vista Home Premium 64 and have all the updates applied. I am trying to open a RD session on an XP Home Pro machine. One of the HP's works without a hitch. The other one gives up with a "Cannot Connect" message (but, of course, no details about what went wrong.) System logs on the XP and both laptops don't reveal anything that I can find. I tried copying the .rdb file from the one that works to the one that doesn't. That made no difference. The failing laptop can ping the XP system, and file and printer sharing work fine. The user id's on both laptops are the same - the user accounts are set up the same on each.
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Dec 5, 2008
I am on a corporate domain running windows vista. There is apparently a group policy that is preventing me from starting the windows firewall service. That's fine since I don't want to use it anyways. Before joining the machine to the domain, I enabled Remote Desktop. Now, even though remote desktop is enabled, I cannot connect to the vista machine from my XP machine. I tried to telnet from the xp machine to the vista machine on port 3389 and it failed. So my suspicion is that I need to open up this port on the vista machine somehow. What I don't understand is what's blocking the port? The firewall is disabled (service is not running) and I haven't installed any other firewall software. Also, both machines are on the same subnet and remote desktop connections are possible on other machines over the LAN, so I don't believe it's anything that needs to be changed on a router. This is starting to drive me insane! (I'm a software developer, not a system or network administrator, so this is really a weak spot in my knowledge.)
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May 22, 2008
I am trying to connect to computers. One has Vista Ultimate and the other has XP Proffesional.
I have enabled the Remote Destop options on both OS's but neither machine is being found/listed in the Remote Desktop Connection screen.
Also i have opened up my XP remote desktop connection port on my router, but i cannot find my port number in Vista for remote desktop.
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May 2, 2008
I have four computers on a very basic network. one computer running windows vista business. one running xp pro. and two running windows xp home. I have set them up so now I can see and enter all computers from any computer I think. the problem is when I tried to open up a remote desktop connection to one of the other computers I kept getting this message. THIS COMPUTER CAN'T CONNECT TO THE REMOTE COMPUTER? i THINK MOST OF YOU WILL KNOW THE REST. Also if any person is having trouble with their computers not seeing each other then do what I have done. I was having trouble connecting all my computers upto the network until I bought a copy of Microsoft live one care and installed it on to three computers and now everything is ok. but I still cannot connect to a remote computer.
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May 15, 2010
I was using remote desktop from my win2000 to my vista yesterday completely fine. however id been having some trouble with the vista machine and reinstalled vista. Today I allowed remote assistance on my vista machine and found i couldnt connect. I looked it up and realised that the remote desktop, usually under the remote assistance option, was gone. I had set vista to install the recommended updates only, but being vista, about 5 out of the 25 didnt install. Im guessing the remote desktop functionality is in one of these updates i have not installed, my question is: which one. Or is it not in the "recommended" updates, and if so, could you give me a clue which updates i should be installing to return remote desk... However if there is some kind of command that unlocks it or something, even better! This forum looks great, im sorry to start with a qustion though D;!!!
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May 6, 2008
I have two laptops running on the workgroup both wireless and using the same router.
Laptop 1 - XP Pro SP2
Laptop 2 - Vista Business
Computer I want to access via RDC (Computer Name on RDC Screen) CompName.Domain. XP Pro connects and brings up RDC terminal to machine to login. Entering in the login and password logs into the machine. Vista Business asks for credentials when logging into Domain: CompName.Domain. No RDC Terminal comes up. The login and password entered gives an error message that "This computer can't connect to the remote comuter".
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Mar 23, 2008
Has anyone else experienced the problem of an active connection REMOTE DESKTOP window going black without any error message? I suspect this may happen when someone on the host computer interrupts the connection, but there may be other reasons also. The problem is that we do not receive any error message indicated the nature of the disruption?
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Oct 20, 2009
Usung Vista Home Prem 32bit. I have utilized the Remote features to assist a friend in another state by taking control of his PC remotely. I was just reviewing a comparision Chart of the new Windows7 versions. It shows Desktop Remote Host is not available in Windows7 Home Prem....have I understood this correctly?
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Sep 18, 2007
I have a intel Quad core running vista x64 that I use only for my Media Center station. It has no keyboard and no mouse. no monitor, only the TV. What I am trying to do here is remote connect to it with my old Win98 computer to encode, menage etc my media on that computer. So far all this work very nicely, but What I am wondering is is there a way I can do this without the `Current User` on the media center to log off? Because when I remote connect, the media center software and everything shut down. And since using Remote access requires me to set up a password to the `current user` when I boot up the media center computer, I have to enter the password ( and I have no keyboard connected to it) so I have to plug in the usb keyboard. I thought maybe RADMIN 3.0 would be the solution but I haven't heard any success story running radmin onto Vista x64.
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Apr 25, 2008
How to install TSWEB (Remote Desktop Web Connection) on Windows Vista Ultimate?
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Mar 1, 2009
my apologies for not using the quote on my prior message of "Have a new laptop with vista home premium 64bit can not stay logged in to remote dektop at workplace running vista business (?32 or 64?) lose connection
in 1 to 5 minutes". I tried to use the quote button nd it sid my message was to short I tried to add text and the quote button when pushed threw out a pop up that said message to short even with added text
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