Smart Resizing of Remote Desktop Resolution

I recently tried to remote login from a Windows 7 machine to a Windows 8.1. Everything worked fine except for the resolution became too low. Though the remote desktop resolution was showing the correct values, yet the contents were so large and annoying. To make things harder, even the remote desktop resolution settings were uneditable. After trying out various option, I figured out that the adding the following line to the end of the .rdp file did the trick:

smart sizing:i:1

Thanks for the tip from: https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/testing-with/running/via-rdp/smart-resizing.html