Comments on: ClearType in Remote Desktop with XP

By: Mathias

Mathias — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:45:09 +0000

If you installed the registry entries and nothing changes with the xp-machine you’re rdp-ed with… just TURN ON that damn smoothing in xp, display dialogue (right click on desktop => properties => 4th tab => effects).

If that machine is not set up to use cleartype at all, this cleartype could not be transported with rdp even if you have carefully obeyed the instructions above.

By: pdf23ds

pdf23ds — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 02:01:44 +0000

Adding the key in your post doesn’t work in all cicumstances. If the session is initiated remotely it actually uses a different registry setting.

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

Please amend your post–it would have saved me a few minutes.

By: Alex van Herwijnen

Alex van Herwijnen — Fri, 14 May 2010 00:30:01 +0000

Enrique: for Windows Server 2003, there’s a seperate hotfix available to enable ClearType over Terminal Services (which RDP is).

You can find it on http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946633, use the ‘View and request hotfix’-link at the top to obtain it.

By: Bucky

Bucky — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:23:13 +0000

Awesome, thanks! It worked for me with XP sp3.

Actually, I don’t really care for cleartype in terms of anti-aliasing. But what I use cleartype for is to increase the thickness of the fonts.

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!