I'm still very happy with my tablet PC. It has become my mail /bloging machine, and I take it with me all the time. To use it on my desktop I use a remote desktop connection. Works nice, the default orientation of the tablet is portrait but logging in remote it defaults to landscape.
- Set the remote desktop size to fit your desktop, not that of the remote machine
You can have a remote desktop which is larger than the real desktop. The tablet has a resolution of 768*1024. The primary monitor of my desktop as well, but it's seconday is 1280*1024. Setting the remote desktop size (the display tab in the RDP settings) to 1280*1024 will produce a larger desktop for the remote machine. But when scrolling a window the new info can be garbled making the larger desktop unusable. In my case the display driver of the client was to blame, I did find a solution which also works with the faulty driver:
- In case of a garbled display : When firing up a larger remote dektop make sure the display from which you fire up the desktop is at least the size of the remote one.
A remote desktop allways fires up on the primary display, in my case this is 1024*768. Setting this temporarely to 1280*1024 (the size of my second display) leads to a perfect big RDP.
Another tip I learned from someone else.
- Nest remote desktops, start one from another remote desktop
The scenario he used it for is security. Many machine are only accesible from one specific address. Using a RDP. When he's on the road he logs into the trusted machine with an RDP and starts new RDP's from there to administer the machines. Works like charm, although it can be quite confusing. WhereAmI ?
Peter