Comments on: ClearType in Remote Desktop with XP

By: Enrique

Enrique — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:11:16 +0000

Any luck getting this to work under Server 2003? I’d assume the same registry entry would work as they are basically the same OS (XP and 2003 that is).

Like you said, using visual studio from RDP without cleartype is an excersize in eye strain.

By: sonika

sonika — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:22:46 +0000

hi,
could you please help me in creating java code on remote desktop control in xp 2003(i have just tried in implementing the code but i was not successfull.

By: Dan Dar3

Dan Dar3 — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:10:44 +0000

Wow, Jason, you’re da man!

I’ve been looking for this for quite some time, I do my main development on a laptop connected through RDP to a XP desktop machine (XP SP3 to XP SP3), and man now I can use consolas!

Personally I don’t like ClearType enabled in XP although as I said using it on a laptop, I like the texts nice and crips the Standard font smoothing method does it just fine for me. But, with this change although I enable Standard mode, I can still get the most of Consolas without having to fully enable the ClearType for the entire system.

Thanks so much for sharing this with us!!!

By: Nate

Nate — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:49:58 +0000

YOU ARE MY HERO!

However, I had to add RDP-Tcp onto that “path,” or whatever it’s called.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\WinStations\RDP-Tcp]
“AllowFontAntiAlias”=dword:00000001

By: Willie

Willie — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 02:04:02 +0000

Well, somewhere in there it worked. Glad to have sharp text again. I’m guessing it was a reboot that did it although I shut off computer’s nightly so though I did do that. Maybe not Thanks for the help.

By: Willie

Willie — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:45:19 +0000

Installed the font, set the registry key, and still got nothing. Darn!

By: Willie

Willie — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:52:08 +0000

Wow, holy crap. I just tried coding over a RD connection (new HDTV and the first thing I noticed was the font was terrible. I clicked the font smoothing stuff, installed Consolas on the local machine and nothing changed. I’m betting that registry change and the fact that I probably need to update the XP machine to SP3+ is where I’m going wrong. Thanks for the pointer.

By: Hamed

Hamed — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:38:23 +0000

Would you please tell me how can I model agregation (or composition) , and various type of association (one-to-one , one-to-many and many-to many ) relationships between two classes in c# ?

Best Regards