{"id":1073,"date":"2014-05-03T09:03:45","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T09:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/?p=1073"},"modified":"2014-05-03T09:03:45","modified_gmt":"2014-05-03T09:03:45","slug":"mstsc-remote-desktop-shows-a-black-screen-on-connect-re-connect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/?p=1073","title":{"rendered":"mstsc \/ remote desktop shows a black screen on connect \/ re-connect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If mstsc \/ remote desktop displays a black screen on connect or in my case on the second connection if run again in quick succession, try the following:<\/p>\n<p>From the windows run line or from the command prompt run:<\/p>\n<pre>mstsc \/admin \/v:ip_of_your_server \/span<\/pre>\n<p>The \/admin command seems to bypass the black screen and allow normal use, the \/span command is just used by me as I have multiple monitors and it allows mstsc to use the whole screen area available over both monitors. You can of course omit the \/span<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If mstsc \/ remote desktop displays a black screen on connect or in my case on the second connection if run again in quick succession, try the following: From the windows run line or from the command prompt run: mstsc \/admin \/v:ip_of_your_server \/span The \/admin command seems to bypass the black screen and allow normal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169,17,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-win-7-10-tips-tricks","category-windows","category-xp-tips-tricks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1074,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions\/1074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}