Switch to full screen on Remote Desktop

Ever so often, the default rdp gets set with a certain size which effectively takes away the full screen mode for the session. My earlier approach was to disconnect from the RDP session, and use the options tab to select full screen or the /f mode in mstsc to reconnect in full screen mode again.

I just found that you dont need to disconnect and reconnect. You can switch back to full screen mode in your existing RDP session with the simple (ok, its 3 keys) keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-Alt-Break.

source: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproui/thread/1da2cb6a-a016-4cc9-b802-0c3adc674507/

Back to blogging times after a few months. I feel I shouldnt keep waiting to write that nice big blog post, and should document all these points, however tiny they seem now.

Ctrl-Alt-Del on remote desktop

Needed to change my password on a different domain, into which I remote login.
Ctrl-Alt-Del equivalent is Ctrl-Alt-End
source: https://www.google.com/#q=ctrl%20alt%20del%20remote%20desktop

More remote desktop keyboard shortcuts are listed here:

Remote desktop connection navigation

• CTRL+ALT+END (Open the Microsoft Windows NT Security dialog box)
• ALT+PAGE UP (Switch between programs from left to right)
• ALT+PAGE DOWN (Switch between programs from right to left)
• ALT+INSERT (Cycle through the programs in most recently used order)
• ALT+HOME (Display the Start menu)
• CTRL+ALT+BREAK (Switch the client computer between a window and a full screen)
• ALT+DELETE (Display the Windows menu)
• CTRL+ALT+Minus sign (-) (Place a snapshot of the entire client window area on the Terminal server clipboard and provide the same functionality as pressing ALT+PRINT SCREEN on a local computer.)
• CTRL+ALT+Plus sign (+) (Place a snapshot of the active window in the client on the Terminal server clipboard and provide the same functionality as pressing PRINT SCREEN on a local computer.)

source: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/301583