Clickable area in embeded RDP

Hi Mark,
It's the first time I heard this problem. I'm sure that it's related to the ActiveX. This explain why you have the problem with both application. I suppose that if you use the external mode you don't have this problem ? Do you use large font or a non standard dpi ?

Hi David,

thanks for getting back to me!

Yeah, it's not specific to Remote Desktop Manager, I use the standard font size and standard DPI (125% default), however I have a 26" screen running at 1920 X 1200. It worked fine until I re-installed Windows.

Hi,
Have you updated your video driver ? Can you try to execute RDM in Window Virtual PC and see if the problem appear ?

Thanks that a good idea, didn't even think of that, will update the driver now, I'm currently using nVidia 257.21 which is quite new though but I see there is a newer version 258.96 so downloading that now. Will let you know. It does work perfectly from within a VMware workstation machine running XP on my pc. It does work fine in external mode.

Edit: Something interesting is I uninstalled the nVidia driver and it went to some VGAsave driver in 640X480 or something similarly ridiculous, anyway it worked fine like that, Windows then installed the Nvidia WDM driver and I'm back to the original problem. Still waiting for the new nVidia drivers to download.
edited by markmc on 7/26/2010

Hi,

Updated the drivers and still the issue. I think it may be a driver issue still becasue the uninstall of the nvidia drivers initially sorted out the problem. I'll play around and will let you know if I come up with something. Thanks again for the help.

Hi,
I saw this:
http://computingondemand.com/nvidia-drivers-break-remote-desktop-with-windows-xp,

Can you try the driver certified with the Microsoft for WHQL certification?

Hi David,

Still fighting with this issue. I have tried various Nvidia drivers, WHQL and WDDM. Still doing it, I'm thinking I just had an unlucky install of Windows 7, I have run SFC /scannow as well. I wonder if it would be a bad idea to replace all the registry entries related to RDP from a working Win 7 x64 box. If I can get another brand of GFX card to try and it sorts this issue out I'll switch to ATI. Don't know anyone who has a spare to let me try though.

Found this post as well but there's no resolution to the posters issue, so a bit useless:
http://www.sevenforums.com/network-sharing/28165-nvidia-drivers-stops-remote-desktop-working.html

Also out of curiosity I tried doing this in RDTabs and it works fine, however not to run down the product but for me it doesn't compare to RDM. In fact nothing I've tested does.
edited by markmc on 7/30/2010

Hi,
It's interesting that with RDTabs it works, do you know if they use RDP 7 or an older version of the ActiveX ? What version of RDTabs do you use ? Can you try Remote Desktop Manager 5.6 for fun:

http://remotedesktopmanager.com/remotedesktopmanager/Home.aspx/PreviousVersion

This version use RDP 6.1.

Let me know