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How do I open a remote desktop session on a secondary monitor (in full-screen)? It always seems to want to open on the primary one and I cannot find a switch which lets me choose.

Is there a known solution or workaround for this?

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I don't know if this helps, but in my experience, Windows tends to remember the monitor on which the app is maximized. Try opening RD on the second monitor, maximize it, close it, and see if it opens on the second monitor when you open it again.

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Opened remote desktop, restored it, moved it to secondary monitor, closed it, reopened with the /f switch to make it open fullscreen on the secondary monitor. Works a treat, thanks. – kez Jan 26 '10 at 10:15
+1 No idea if there is a smarter way, but this is how I do it as well. – William Hilsum Jan 26 '10 at 10:43
Great to hear it! I found this out with Outlook one day. – Randolph West Jan 26 '10 at 12:32
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Open the RDP file in a text editor, find the winposstr:s:0,1,xpos,ypos,width,height

Put where you want the xpos and ypos to be in the RDP file and save it.

You can then have the window open consistently where you want it.

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I found that if I move the remote desktop connection dialog to the second monitor and run it that it will open the session there. Then you can save that connection to a .rdp file and that should do it for you.

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