Change DPI of one user using W2K3 Remote Desktop / Terminal Server

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Published on 2009-06-09T12:55:04Z Indexed on 2010/04/23 7:03 UTC
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In short: How do I increase the DPI of some (not all) of our customers connected to our RDP server?

We are running a W2K3 Terminal Server that our clients connect to to run our application.

One of our clients complains that all fonts / icons etc are too small. This user has a high DPI monitor. The DPI of the client OS (XP in this case) is not transferred to the server.

To make things worse (or more interesting) the Display properties dialog disables the Advanced button that you can use to change the DPI on normal clients.

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