Remote desktop windows 7 with windows xp

How do I get printing working? Do I need to install a driver? On which machine? And do I install the x86 or x64 version of the driver?

I don't think it's even possible to install the x64 driver on the Win XP machine, since it's a 32 bit version of Windows Make sure both machines are members of the same Workgroup which by default is named Workgroup. If both are administrator accounts and if you are unable to login from only one administator account, then you may have to change some settings to get access to printers in workgroup. Steps to setup file and printer sharing from Windows 7 to Windows Xp:.

You will want to verify the following settings under Advanced Sharing Settings for the Home or Work and Public profile. If you want any user to have access the public shares turn off password protection. This is located in Advanced Sharing Settings toward the bottom of the list. To share the printer on the Windows 7 machine go into Devices and Printers from the Start menu and double click on the printer icon.

In the Properties screen click on the Sharing Tab and check the box to share the printer and type in its share name. Figure 1: Clicking the Options button expands the Remote Desktop Connection dialog box and provides you with access to its configuration settings. If you want to be able to see your client desktop as well as the remote desktop you can use a smaller Remote Desktop Size setting. However, keep in mind that Remote Desktop is automatically configured to display the Connection Bar when you use the Full Screen setting.

Notice the check box at the bottom of the Display tab. The Connection Bar is a small toolbar that appears at the top of the screen when you use Remote Desktop and allows you to easily switch between client and remote desktops.

If you select a higher setting, it will drop back anyway. On the Local Resources tab, as shown in Figure 3, you can choose which resources from the remote system you want to reroute to the client system. Figure 3: The settings on this tab allow you to reroute resources from the remote system to the client system. In the Remote Computer Sound section, the default setting brings the sounds generated on the remote system to the client system.

In the Keyboard panel, you can specify how you want the special Windows shortcut keystrokes, such as Alt-TAB, to be interpreted. As you can see the default setting only allows them to be applied to the remote system in full screen more. However, you can choose to have them only apply to the remote system or to only apply to the client system.

Keep in mind that the [Windows] key operates normally in both the remote and client windows depending on which window has the focus. The Local Devices panel, in which all the check boxes are selected by default, provides control over device rerouting. The Printers and Serial Ports check boxes automatically reroute these ports from the remote system to your client system. For example, you launch an application on your remote system and then choose the Print command; the output will appear on your home printer rather than your office printer.

You can think of the Programs tab, shown in Figure 4, as a remote startup folder. Here you can specify the name of an application on the remote system that you want to automatically launch when you establish a connection to the remote system. You can even specify a specific folder in which you want the application to launch. Figure 4: You can use the settings on the Programs tab to configure an application on your remote system to automatically launch when you establish a remote connection.

Doing so allows you to configure the following options: Download Remote Desktop Connection 7. All displays ensures the session always uses all your local displays even when some of them are added or removed later. Single display ensures the session always uses a single display and allows you to configure its properties.

Select displays allows you to choose which displays to use for the session and provides an option to dynamically change the list of displays during the session. Select the displays to use for the session specifies which local displays to use for the session. All selected displays must be adjacent to each other.

This setting is only available in Select display mode. Maximize to current displays determines which displays the sessions will use when going full screen. When enabled, the session goes full screen on the displays touched by the session window. This allows you to change displays during the session. When disabled, the session goes full screen on the same displays it was on the last time it was full screen.

This setting is only available in Select display mode and is disabled otherwise. Single display when windowed determines which displays are available in the session when exiting full screen.

When enabled, the session switches to a single display in windowed mode. When disabled, the session retains the same displays in windowed mode as in full screen. This setting is only available in All displays and Select display modes and is disabled otherwise.

Start in full screen determines whether the session will launch in full-screen or windowed mode. This setting is only available in Single display mode and is enabled otherwise. Fit session to window determines how the session is displayed when the resolution of the remote desktop differs from the size of the local window. When enabled, the session content will be resized to fit inside the window while preserving the aspect ratio of the session.

When disabled, scrollbars or black areas will be shown when the resolution and window size don't match. This setting is available in all modes. Update the resolution on resize makes the remote desktop resolution automatically update when you resize the session in windowed mode. When disabled, the session always remains at whichever resolution you specify in Resolution. Resolution lets you specify the resolution of the remote desktop. The session will retain this resolution for its entire duration.

This setting is only available in Single display mode and when Update the resolution on resize is disabled. Change the size of the text and apps specifies the size of the content of the session. This setting only applies when connecting to Windows 8. Give us feedback Have a feature suggestion or want to report a problem?

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