# Modify a virtual desktop
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You can update the hardware of your virtual desktop or change the session name.

1. Before making changes to the instance size, you must stop the session:

   1. Choose **Actions**.   
![Virtual desktops](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/res/latest/ug/images/res-virtualdesktops.png)

   1. Choose **Virtual Desktop State**. 

   1. Choose **Stop**. 
**Note**  
You cannot update the desktop size for hibernated sessions.

1. After you have confirmed the desktop has stopped, choose ** Actions** and then choose **Update Session**. 

1. Change the session name or choose a new desktop size.

1. Choose **Submit**.

1. After your instances update, restart your desktop:

   1. Choose **Actions**. 

   1. Choose **Virtual Desktop State**. 

   1. Choose **Start**. 

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for AWS Research and Engineering Studio. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query res` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).