Since a few months I’m working in a new project where we have remote PC’s for developing. Since they updated the clients from Windows XP SP1 to SP3 we we have the new remote desktop client. Now it’s possible to show the terminal client on two monitors (or a monitor with a resolution over 1600×1200). We just had to do the following:

1. create a Shortcut to mstsc.exe
2. add as params
• /w:2560 (The screen witdth)
• /h:1024 (The screen height)
• /v:hostname

The link will look like this: mstsc.exe /w:2560 /h:1024 /v:hostname
Our expirience was it works not bad. The only thing we noticed was, the client needs more power.

Windows dual screen, mstsc, mulit monitor, Terminalclient, Windows, windows XP

I’m owner of an ASUS eeePC with 4 GB and 16 GB SSD hard drive. After changing the OS from ubuntu to Windows XP, everything works very well except the speed is a bit slow but I can live with it. The 4 GB SSD is my primary boot partition with the “%systemroot%” (“C:\” drive), so space is a little short. After all Windows updates and some program installations there are 150 MB left. This is ok for my purpose but windows starts to bother me with balloon tips.

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