05 September 2012

Black Screen When Restoring Minimised RDP Session

When restoring a minimised RDP session, often it will come up with a completely black screen, which won't go away for up to 20 seconds...not productivity friendly!

Try this on the client PC (not the remote server/PC):
  • In registry go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Terminal Server Client\
  • Create a new DWORD value named RemoteDesktop_SuppressWhenMinimized
  • Specify 2 as the value data.

Reference:
http://serverfault.com/questions/48650/remote-desktop-session-black-after-minimize

6 comments:

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    1. Glad it helped. This one took a while to figure out when I first encountered it.

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    1. Great! You're welcome. Good to see my random list of fixes is helpful.

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  3. Thank you so much! That fixed the problem!

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