How to check/change resolution of headless pc /4k fit headless dongle

Toro · 27 Oct 2017

Folks,
I have win 10 pro on a headless pc that has evga 1080ti that I pretty much use as a media server. When I rdp into it from my win 7 pro I cannot see any details of the monitor or change any resolution of the win 10 machine. Under display options there's a message that says that the display settings cannot be changed from a remote session.
And from nvidia control panel the only settings available are the 3d settings.

How do I change the resolution ?

bro67 · 27 Oct 2017

No you will not see the actual resolution of the computer, unless you check Display Settings for Resolution in the Settings Menu. When accessing through a remote interface, you only get the set resolution that RDP will allow to make it fast and very minimal on what will show on the remote desktop.

If you want more power to look at things, use either VNC or Team Viewer. They both have a lot more than RDP will give, especially that RDP still has huge security risks that have not been patched. At some point Microsoft will end up dumping RDP and going with either their version of VNC or Team Viewer.

Plankton · 27 Oct 2017

Question: What is a "headless PC"?

bro67 · 27 Oct 2017

Plankton said:

Question: What is a "headless PC"?

No KVM (Keyboard, Mouse, Monitor).

Toro · 27 Oct 2017

Teamviewer for the win !!

bro67 · 27 Oct 2017

Good to hear. VNC is built into the latest Raspbian. I always use Webmin for servers, since they would not have any GUI installed.