Remote desktop messing up icons

uisng Windows XP Pro SP2 when we connect to another Win XP Pro SP2 using rdp,
the desktop icons are rearranged. How can that be prevented?

Create an .rdp file using 1024x768 as the resolution. Save it then edit the
file using Notepad and set the resolution to whatever your real desktop size
is, ie. 1200x1024 or whatever. The parameters to modify are the desktopwidth
and desktopheight parameters. Save the modified .rdp file then click on the
file to start the session with the modified resolution. That works for me
where my desktop PC uses 1152x864 while my client laptop only does
1024x768...

Here is a snippet of an .rdp file for my desktop as an illustration...This
file is on my
laptop client...


screen mode id:i:1
desktopwidth:i:1152
desktopheight:i:864
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"techieguy" <techieguy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:27AC719D-52B9-4D2A-AFCD-CFB6F244C4BD@microsoft.com...
> uisng Windows XP Pro SP2 when we connect to another Win XP Pro SP2 using
> rdp,
> the desktop icons are rearranged. How can that be prevented?

That seems to have done the trick!

Thanks
Glen

"techieguy" wrote:

> uisng Windows XP Pro SP2 when we connect to another Win XP Pro SP2 using rdp,
> the desktop icons are rearranged. How can that be prevented?