http://www.compdigitec.com/labs/2009/03/07/enabling-24-bit-colour-rdp-in-windows-2003/ The place for interesting things Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:40:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.compdigitec.com/labs/2009/03/07/enabling-24-bit-colour-rdp-in-windows-2003/comment-page-1/#comment-26680 How do I improve my screen resolution in Windows Remote Desktop? Drija Sun, 14 Aug 2011 13:12:31 +0000 http://www.compdigitec.com/labs/?p=71#comment-26680 [...] http://www.compdigitec.com/labs/2009/03/07/enabling-24-bit-colour-rdp-in-windows-2003/ October 23, 2009 8:28 am rob As CodeByMoonlight has mentioned, Windows Server disables true color (24-bit and higher) by default. This is done to conserve resources and network bandwidth on a Terminal Server, which may typically have many users using Remote Desktop/Terminal Server Client simultaneously. October 23, 2009 9:40 am Jeff Well, this has not fixed everything — the fonts are still large and not very smooth, and it’s not as nice looking as the Win2K3 VM’s that I RDP into — but it’s certainly an improvement that I wouldn’t have figured out on my own. October 23, 2009 11:03 am [...] [...] http://www.compdigitec.com/labs/2009/03/07/enabling-24-bit-colour-rdp-in-windows-2003/ October 23, 2009 8:28 am rob As CodeByMoonlight has mentioned, Windows Server disables true color (24-bit and higher) by default. This is done to conserve resources and network bandwidth on a Terminal Server, which may typically have many users using Remote Desktop/Terminal Server Client simultaneously. October 23, 2009 9:40 am Jeff Well, this has not fixed everything — the fonts are still large and not very smooth, and it’s not as nice looking as the Win2K3 VM’s that I RDP into — but it’s certainly an improvement that I wouldn’t have figured out on my own. October 23, 2009 11:03 am [...]

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