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Remote desktop has recently become my best friend, and I recently learned some neat keyboard shortcuts, but I'm sure there are a million other things that can help me.

  • ALT+PAGE UP - Switches between programs from left to right.
  • CTRL+ESC - Switches the client between a window and full screen.
  • ALT+HOME - Displays the Start menu.
  • CTRL+ALT+MINUS (–) - Places a snapshot of the active window in the Remote Desktop session on the clipboard.
  • CTRL+ALT+PLUS (+) - Places a snapshot of the entire Remote Desktop session window on the clipboard.
  • CTRL+ALT+END - Displays the Task Manager
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If you're doing a lot of RDP to various servers in your organisation, you'll know the pain that comes on, or shortly after, password change day. For this reason alone (but there are others) I find visionApp is a great product for managing a lot of servers. I have around 20 servers I need to access, and being able to backup my configuration means we can share the configuration.

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visionApp is AWESOME – in.spite Sep 11 '09 at 11:32
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  • ALT+INSERT -- to cycle over programs in the MRU order (ALT+TAB effect)
  • ALT+PAGE DOWN also works for right-to-left order
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Launch remote connection tool with mstsc /span command = the window will span across the monitors.

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CTRL+ALT+BREAK switches between full-screen and windowed.

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This isn't a tip, it's actually more of a hack. I hate the fact that RDC has ClearType disabled when running from Windows XP SP2. This little hack allows you to have ClearType enabled. From the CodeProject page:

A few of my favorite things are:

  • ClearType font smoothing in Windows XP

  • Working from home using Remote Desktop

  • Not running Vista

In Vista and Windows 7, from what I know, ClearType is automatically enabled.

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