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Today I've logged in thru remote session to my Windows 7 machine for the 1st time. After that I came back and on started working on site (physically on box), bud noticed immediately that my font is strange. I've reassured that ClearType settings are set. I don't know why it happen and how to restore it to be as it was. It's visible ex. on Google Chrome address bar
Szymon Toda
Posted 2014-11-06T08:31:23.170
Reputation: 1 239
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Make sure "Font smoothing" is checked in the "Experience" tab (MS RDC Client), if it doesn't help, please log off current user from the start menu and try again.
Wang Yongtao
Posted 2014-11-06T08:31:23.170
Reputation: 184
2It's silly, but restarting my machine helped. Logging off not, yet it's OK answer for me. – Szymon Toda – 2014-11-14T09:22:17.913
i dont have an experience tab. maybe because im on Win7? – philx_x – 2015-08-26T09:18:55.337
7This answer talks about smoothing the text while RDPing while the question was more about post RDPing. – Alexander – 2016-09-19T22:06:19.047
This, combined with Mladen B's chrome restart tip, works perfectly! – Emiel Koning – 2018-04-12T08:48:57.527
One also needs to adjust "Adjust ClearType Text" on remote machine. Please read the below article for full details.
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What helped me is to type the following in the Google Chrome's address bar :
about:restart
and press Enter. Chrome will restart and reopen all your tabs and your font smoothing should again work at this point.
Mladen B.
Posted 2014-11-06T08:31:23.170
Reputation: 797
2Thank you! Been searching high & low for a way to get rid of the Roboto font after remote desktop session. – Portland Runner – 2017-03-13T14:11:53.890
You have no idea how long I've been looking for this solution and yet it's so simple. Thank you! – CaffeinatedCoder – 2017-05-24T12:28:06.103
1I wish I could upvote this post every time I remote in to my computer and then need to look up this solution to fix my browser. This answer has helped me countless of times! – Tot Zam – 2017-09-28T14:36:38.827
4This should be accepted answer! – Alex G – 2017-10-09T13:52:43.000
Great tip! very convenient way to restart chrome. – Emiel Koning – 2018-04-12T08:47:58.123
1I'm a bit confused by the enthusiasm for this answer... Good if you only/mostly use Chrome I guses, but I use a lot of other programs, and they mostly continue looking terrible after an RDP session. – j_random_hacker – 2018-06-14T12:33:54.037
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I resolved by changing the profile in the Performance configuration tab of Remote Desktop, from automatic quality detection to 10 LAN (the Font Smoothing checkbox got activated):
Zac
Posted 2014-11-06T08:31:23.170
Reputation: 321
4and after this about:restart from chrome tab, helps me to fix the issue. thankQ – sekhar – 2017-07-31T13:03:37.413
Is this happening for all apps or just Chrome? (i.e.: try windows explorer, IE etc.) – cdavid – 2014-11-07T01:44:51.267
1Like the answers at the bottom say typing about:restart into the Chrome address bar and hitting enter worked for me. – Kyle Bridenstine – 2018-01-23T15:56:50.993
Discord and Chrome fonts get demolished after disconnecting from RDP. Still holds true in Windows 10. – Brain2000 – 2019-08-15T17:33:30.413