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Limit maximum display resolution

Supported on: At least Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7

Registry

HKLM SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Terminal Services

Options

MaxXResolution decimal - range 640-8192
MaxYResolution decimal - range 480-8192

Description

This policy setting allows you to specify the maximum display resolution that can be used by each monitor used to display a Remote Desktop Services session. Limiting the resolution used to display a remote session can improve connection performance, particularly over slow links, and reduce server load. If you enable this policy setting, you must specify a resolution width and height. The resolution specified will be the maximum resolution that can be used by each monitor used to display a Remote Desktop Services session. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the maximum resolution that can be used by each monitor to display a Remote Desktop Services session will be determined by the values specified on the Display Settings tab in the Remote Desktop Session Host Configuration tool.