Remote desktop in windows VM (from Mac retina) is too small

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mreco99

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hi
Im using a 15 inch macbook retina laptop
Using Parallels to run windows 7, which is fine.
Problem is when i am in windows 7 and start a remote desktop connection (RDP) from windows, the RDP session is such high res, i can hardly read the font, the font is soo small.
I know about DPI scaling and that fine for my windows 7, but not for the remote desktop session from the windows session

Any ideas.?

thank
Simon
 
Has there been any progress on this, as the workaround is not the best.
If you change the display settings to scaled the RDP session displays correctly, but the rest of windows is now in a large font.
In my work I use Visual Studio and will run an RDP to a test environment. The above solution make VS difficult to use as I no longer get the benefit of the large screen
 
Unfortunately this is a windows issue. The same exact issue exists on my Surface Pro 3. While windows 10 makes this a little better most elements are still too small. Even on Surface 3, I have to change resolution smaller and turn off dpi scaling.
 
I also run a Citrix virtual desktop with Windows 7 from my Mac. If I RDP to the same location from the virtual desktop the display does not have the same issue.
 
Citrix is very different from RDP. Citrix does not support high dpi so it's not even scaled to begin with. RDP however is DPI aware, but it doesn't scale. Search for RDP high dpi text too small on google. You will see numerous people have this issue with windows boxes.
 
Not sure if you understood my comment. I first go to my Virtual Desktop resolution (2068 x 1136) via citrix, I then run an RDP within the Virtual Desktop. So the RDP is running inside the virtual desktop.
But I understand if it can't be done.
 
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