Terminal Server Clients Should be Set to at Least 256 Colors

This article was previously published under Q186466

Terminal Server renders client screens at 256 colors regardless of the Terminal Server's actual screen resolution. For the best performance, computers running as 16-bit and 32-bit Terminal Server clients should be set to run at 256 colors. Otherwise, the client screens must be rendered at the server in 256 colors and each pixel must then be modified to 16 colors.