Enable Aero for RDP “One or more of the themes has been disabled by Remote Desktop Connection settings”

KB ID 0000647 

Problem

If you have enabled Aero on your remote machine, when you connect to it via RDP you will see this error, (if you try and change the theme to Aero).

One or more of the themes has been disabled by Remote Desktop Connection settings

Solution

1. Close your RDP session, and launch the RDP client software again > Options > Experience > Place a tick in “Menu and window animation”.

2. Reconnect to your machine.

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