Set the color depth of the session to 32-bit.You will first need to make some changes to the local Remote Desktop client before connecting to the EC2 instance: As a disclaimer, I am basing these steps on those found in the following post ( ). Note that in this post I assume that you know how to create EC2 instances and that you are connecting to the instance via Remote Desktop on a Windows 7 machine. In this post I describe the steps that I took to modify the look and feel of an Amazon EC2 Windows Server 2008 R2 instance.
Even though it is not possible to use Windows 7 on EC2, it is possible to modify a Window Server instance such that, from a user’s perspective, it looks and feels like Windows 7.
Although using a server edition is acceptable for most uses of EC2, a desktop version of Windows may be preferable if end users will be interacting with the instance. Amazon EC2 supports creating Windows Server instances in the cloud however, it does not currently support creating instances of the desktop versions of Windows, such as Windows 7.
