{"id":988,"date":"2015-08-31T01:13:33","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T01:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/?p=988"},"modified":"2015-08-31T02:26:04","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T02:26:04","slug":"opening-a-remote-desktop-connection-in-full-screen-mode-on-a-2nd-monitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/?p=988","title":{"rendered":"Opening a Remote Desktop Connection in Full-Screen Mode on a 2nd Monitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Problem:\u00a0 I was give a second monitor at work.\u00a0 My problem was that when I would drag an open Remote Desktop Connection to the second monitor, the window would have scroll bars.\u00a0 I wanted to run the Remote Desktop session in full screen mode.<\/p>\n<p>Resolution:<\/p>\n<p>1. Click the start button, and in the run box type: <strong>mstsc -f<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-990\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/MSTSC_Step01.jpg\" alt=\"mstsc -f Step01\" width=\"403\" height=\"128\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2. Click on the icon or hit enter to open the Remote Desktop Session<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-991\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/MSTSC_Step02.jpg\" alt=\"MSTSC_Step02\" width=\"404\" height=\"141\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/MSTSC_Step02.jpg 404w, http:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/MSTSC_Step02-300x104.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/MSTSC_Step02-210x73.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>3. When the Remote Desktop Connection pop-up box opens, drag this box by the title bar to the second monitor.\u00a0 In the second monitor, then enter the connection information (server, login, etc) in the 2nd monitor.\u00a0 The Remote Desktop session will open in Full-Screen Mode in your 2nd Monitor.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-992\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/MSTSC_Step03.jpg\" alt=\"MSTSC_Step03\" width=\"411\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/MSTSC_Step03.jpg 411w, http:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/MSTSC_Step03-300x179.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/MSTSC_Step03-210x125.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 411px) 100vw, 411px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Problem:\u00a0 I was give a second monitor at work.\u00a0 My problem was that when I would drag an open Remote Desktop Connection to the second monitor, the window would have &hellip; <a class=\"readmore\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/?p=988\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[51,52,53],"class_list":["post-988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-windows","tag-rdp","tag-remote-desktop","tag-terminal-server-window"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":995,"href":"http:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions\/995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}