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I have been getting into using my work machine from home using remote desktop. I love my skins and background at work but they bog down the remote desktop. Does anyone know a good way to flip between an absolute plain 16 color desktop to my usual mess of shapes, colors, and swirls?
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Make a new account on your machine? If not possible, I guess make two of the suites, one plain and one usual and switch between them as needed?
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Go into "Remote Desktop Connection". Click on the "Options" button. Load ("Open") the connection profile for your machine at work. Select the "Experience" tab then un-check "Desktop Background". Go back to the "General" tab and save your connection profile.
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
#2 - Backgrounds are dealt with in this way... but even if you disable themes on the Experience tab you still get all the WB graphics at nasty colour depths. I find it just bearable at 128K DSL speeds, because it's only work after all

I posted a similar question a while back too, but don't remember getting a response. When using the standard MS Luna skins, turning themes off in your remote desktop connection reverts screen elements back to Windows Classic Style, making things nice and fast (if a bit ugly ). It would be nice if WB recognised this hook and disabled itself for remote connections in a similar manner.



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