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I am connecting from a Windows 7 x64 machine to my dev machine running Windows XP SP3 using the built in remote desktop client. For most apps it works fine with no problems, for Visual Studio whenever I am typing the entire text editor keeps redrawing.

I stumbled across this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/873849/vs-2008-sp1-over-remote-desktop-constant-repainting and I have tried all of the suggestions in it to no effect, including resetting all VS settings back to default then disabling the suggested settings. Has anyone found a reliable solution to this? I feel like I'm going insane with the screen constantly refreshing when I'm working from home.

Some additional information: Remote Desktop is set to run at 1680x1050, 15bit color, Low-speed broadband for the experience setting with all but Visual styles and Persistent bitmap caching unchecked.

Visual Studio 2008 Team System is running on the dev machine with Service Pack 1 and Power Commands installed.

Update: I can connect to one of the virtual machines in the same building and use VS2008 without experiencing this issue, the VMs are running Windows 2003 Server so I don't know if that's making a difference here.

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I work in a similar environment (connecting from India to a machine in US) and observed that the network speed matters. We had to sort out things related to router and all..

ydobonmai
Well I know our connection at work is not very fast so this may be part of my problem though I asked two of my co-workers and they don't have the issue.
AltairDusk