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MacBook Pro with Retina - Issues with Windows 7, External Monitors, and Remote Desktop

Hello all,

 

I'm running VMware Fusion Professional 6.0.2 on a new MacBook Pro with Retina.  I run a Windows 7 VM, using a custom text size of 150%, in Fusion's Single Window mode at a resolution of 2796x1646.  For the most part (usually applications are the problem, not Windows), this looks great.

 

Here's where things go off the rails... if I connect an external monitor (which I do every morning when I get to the office), the custom text size of 150% makes the text so big on the external monitor it's useless.  I have to set Windows 7 text size to 100%, and then everything on the external monitor looks ok.  Once I leave the office, I have to change the custom text size back to 150% before using the VM on the Retina display.

 

Another serious issue I've found is when using Remote Desktop in Windows 7, on the Retina display with text size at 100%, the text in my Remote Desktop sessions is so small I can't read it.  Apparently I need to change the text size on the remote computers to 150%, and remember to change it back to 100% before I disconnect so my coworkers don't kill me.

 

I'm hoping there is a better workflow for all of this that I'm missing?  I imagine these issues would be pretty common.


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