Mar 10, 2011

Quick Newbie Tip: Remote Desktop - Copy Paste Issue - Clipboard problem

If you work with windows remote desktop you probably know one of the top irritants :) All of a sudden the Cntrl-C between the local machine and the Cntrl -V on remote desktop will stop working. Irritating especially if file transfers between the boxes are restricted.

Easiest option is to log off and login again but that means closing everything on the remote session and then starting all over again too much for a lazy guy for me !

And then I try recollection there was something I need to kill and restart - something something. Yes if you are an old timer you know the issue is rdpclip.exe. Open task manager kill rdpclip.exe and start it again.

I wish MS could fix this irritant may be they already have but we are still on XP and 2003 R2 Servers -our company doesn't support a lot of heavy weight software on the flashy new windows yet.

1 comment:

Rajesh said...

You can run the following commands on your remote machine one by one.

Taskkill.exe /im rdpclip.exe
Rdpclip.exe

This is a temporary fix, alternately you can use an online copy paste tool, its great.

www.letscopypaste.com