Remote desktop app active connection minimizes automatically with multiple monitors

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Remote desktop app active connection minimizes automatically with multiple monitors

Lawrence Walker 20

I have a dual monitor setup and am using the remote desktop app. When I have an active remote connection and click on an app on the second monitor the active remote desktop connection will minimize. I have found no way to force the active connection to remain maximized while working on other monitor. I need to see what is in the active connection while working on the other monitor. This seems like a remote desktop app bug.

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VaoffD 0

I have exactly same problem when i open my published RemoteApp and then minimize on my monitor 2 and after this maximize, it maximizes on my monitor 1 which i dont want, it even is unresponsive after this monitor change.

I edited my rdp shortcut and add "selectedmonitors:s:1" - 1 is my second monitor. Monitor count start from 0.

Now is working ok. minimize/maximize on same monitor.

I read this things on hanselman com blog when you want read more about this or just search on google "rdp selectedmonitors"

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Anonymous

Hello, This behavior is by design. If you want to avoid this behavior, you can try full screen mode. This is the step:

Open mstsc and choose "show options"
Choose "display", and in display configuration, choose full screen.

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Lawrence Walker 20 Reputation points

2024-01-24T16:35:02.3533333+00:00

I am talking about the remote desktop app downloaded from the microsoft store, not the remote desktop that comes preinstalled on windows computers. The app from the microsoft store does not have any display options that I can find.
Ronald Vallenduuk 0 Reputation points

2025-04-02T14:28:26.61+00:00

That's an incredibly annoying design. No other application minisises when it loses focus.

I often have a remote session on a server open on one monitor while also using a client in a browser window on another monitor. I want to see the effects of the user interaction on the server but that's really hard because the remote connection keeps hiding itself.

Another example of Microsoft deciding what's best for me (and getting it wrong), and removing the choice from my. Just like removing the option to move the taskbar in Windows 11, after having that option for 20+ years.