how can I get Windows Remote Desktop to work on two monitors instead of just one?

Question

At home, I have two monitors on my computer running Vista, which I then use Windows Remote Desktop to access a remote Windows computer. But, the Remote Desktop session only uses just one of my home monitors.

I want to have it use both monitors, to have all the screen for the remote session.

Complication: I keep one of my home monitors veritical, which is great for source code.

Solution

Seems you need a version of Remote Desktop Client 7.0 to achieve this. This is the version that came with Windows 7 but you can download an update here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969084

Once you have the latest version of the RDC client here's instructions on setting up multiple monitors: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rds/archive/2009/07/01/using-multiple-monitors-in-remote-desktop-session.aspx

Comments

[themarcuz]

-1 for not being a programming question

[Admin]

SuperUser or ServerFault might be better places for questions like these. That being said: mstsc /span with current RDP-Client does the trick

[Admin]

+1 didn't knew /multimon, nice :)

[Luis Gouveia]

Do you have a solution for windows 10?

[JaredMcAteer]

@LuisGouveia you're probably better off asking a new question specifically about windows 10. I can't help you, I migrated to linux as of win 8.