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Use the following guidelines on the Options tab:
•
Wallpaper
- When selected, disables the desktop wallpaper.
•
Menu / Window animation
- When selected, disables the menu or window
animation.
•
Theme
- When selected, disables the desktop themes.
•
Show content when dragging
- By default, when you “grab” a Window by the title
bar and move it around, the contents of the window will move with it. Select this to
disable this content view so that only the outline of the window moves when
dragging it, until you drop the window. This option can be beneficial, as it uses less
processing power.
•
Font smoothing
- Converts vector text to bitmap for better display.
•
Auto-connect to local devices
- Select any options (
Printers
,
Serials
,
USB
,
Smart
Cards
,
Sound
, and
Disks
) to have the thin client automatically connect to the
devices (
USB
- Redirects locally attached USB devices on the thin client to a
Microsoft Windows terminal server. When the user connects to the terminal server,
locally attached USB devices on the thin client are accessible).
•
RDP Audio Playback
and
RDP Audio Recording
- Select the audio options you
want.
•
Turn compression off
- When selected, turns compression off (intended for
high-speed connections).
•
Optimize for low speed link
- When selected, allows optimization for low-speed
connections, such as reducing audio quality and/or decreasing protocol-specific
cache size. Intended for a connection spanning a WAN link or using dialup.
•
Auto detect network
- When selected, turns on the auto detect network feature.
This feature is enabled by default. It also disables the Optimize for low speed link
option and the Desktop Experience options by default.
•
Mouse queue timer
- Specifies the default queue timer of a mouse event in an ICA
or RDP session (in 1/100 of a second). It can be used to adjust the bandwidth of a
network.
