Short Cut for Opening Remote Desktop Connection - YouTube
AviD 521 4 gold badges 8 silver badges 29 bronze badges answered Jun 7 '13 at 15:37 Guest Guest 601 5 silver badges 2 bronze badges This bugged me for the longest time as well. Initial attempts to solve it with AutoHotkey failed, because the Remote Desktop client installs a keyboard hook and swallows all input. I finally discovered that the Caps Lock key gets passed through to the local system. So, this AutoHotkey script will do the trick, making Ctrl + Shift + CapsLock minimize Remote Desktop: #IfWinActive ahk_class TscShellContainerClass ^+CapsLock::; Need a short sleep here for focus to restore properly. Sleep 50 WinMinimize return #IfWinActive Corrected version that works for me: #IfWinActive ahk_class TSSHELLWND ^Capslock::; Ctrl+Caps Lock (couldn't make Ctrl+Shift+Caps Lock work for some reason; Need a short sleep here for focus to restore properly. WinMinimize A; need A to specify Active window;MsgBox, Received Remote Desktop minimize hotkey; uncomment for debugging answered Jul 3 '11 at 18:04 Russell Davis Russell Davis 1, 232 9 silver badges 14 bronze badges 3 Alt + Tab It is possible to use that normal, comfortable keyboard shortcut to get out of a full screen Remote Desktop, but requires a slightly different setup before connecting.