Windows Remote Desktop Connection Manager [RDCman] does not go full screen anymore
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I'm using the Remote Desktop Connection Manager 2.7 on a Surface Pro 4 with Windows 10. Until recently, it was working fine: It would go to full screen and show this blue full screen connection bar at the top when pointing there with the mouse. I could close the session from there or leave full screen mode.
A few days ago [no idea what happened], it stopped going to full screen properly. Now it only resizes to the full size of my screen minus the task bar [so I still see that and the RDCman's window is also not behind my local task bar. The blue bar at the top appears for a moment but I cannot get it back when moving the mouse there.
Reinstalling did not help. Any idea what might have caused this and how to fix it?
Best Answer
Simpler - just don't maximize the Remote Desktop Connection Manager window.
I just resize the RDCMan window to "almost" maximum size, then hit Full Screen in the RemoteDesktop connection [right click-> Full Screen].
Otherwise, it seems Windows 10 keeps a bottom bar reserved for the taskbar & doesn't allow the remote desktop to go "all the way" Fullscreen.
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