It is so infruriating. When working at home my desktop workstation is the primary "nerve centre"; controlling all other computers via the thank-God-it's-free Remote Desktop Connection. Since my workstation operates two monitors at 1680x1050 each, most connections are just standard windows floating around. Not so for my primary laptop, which runs at a matching 1680x1050 too. This I connect using full-screen mode, and by default the connection bar at the top is unpinned, so it slides out of view until I position the mouse cursor to the top again.
This is not the case with my laptop.
When I work outside and connect back home (to the desktop workstation), I naturally have to cut its desktop space of 3360x1050 to fit a full-screen resolution of 1680x1050 on my laptop display. That is fine, except the connection bar is always pinned. No matter how many times and different ways I unpin it, RDC on my laptop refuses to acknowledge my preference, stubbornly pinning the connection bar. Each and every time ET tells me to phone home. That I mention that it is so infruriating?
I compared the RDP file settings, I asked around for opinions. Nothing close to explaining why my desktop computer behaves the way I like it. Maybe because I pat and kiss it good night before I go to bed? Enough. I decided to poke around the Registry. Lo and behold, and interesting setting I found.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Terminal Server Client]
"PinConnectionBar"=dword:00000000
Presto. From now on, my laptop gets pats and kisses from me too. That must be the trick.