Why does my shared [Remote Desktop] clipboard not work? (Part 1)
Terminal Services Team Blog - Why does my shared clipboard not work? (Part 1)
"The TS shared clipboard allows you to copy and paste data between local and remote sessions. When it works its really simple and seamless, but what about when it doesn’t? Diagnosing clipboard problems can be hard and frustrating!
The majority of clipboard problems fall into the category of clipboard viewer chain related issues.
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Symptom: Remote-to-local copy and paste broken.
Possible Cause: RDPCLIP is not in the clipboard viewer chain.
Possible Solution: Kill and restart RDPCLIP.
Symptom: Local-to-remote copy and paste broken.
Possible Cause: TS client is not in the clipboard viewer chain.
Possible Solution: Close the TS client and reconnect to the session.
Symptom: RDPCLIP or the TS client is using excessive CPU.
Possible Cause: There is a loop in the local or remote clipboard viewer chain.
Possible Solution: Kill and restart RDPCLIP. If this does not fix the problem, close the TS client and reconnect to the session
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I use Remote Desktop/Terminal Services Sessions all day, every day and find it frustrating when the clipboard/cut-n-paste stops working.
This article provides a some great detail as to what is going on and how to troubleshoot and resolve related issues...
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11 comments:
Cool, thanks! I HATE it when that happens.
How do you kill RDPCLIP and restart?
I use Task Manager - Processes tab and "End Task" it.
Then I Start -> Run RDPClip
I hope this help,
Greg
on any server os you can create a .bat file with the following then put it on your quick launch, single click and its bounced
... cheers!
taskkill /f /fi "USERNAME eq YourUserNameHere" /im rdpclip.exe
rdpclip.exe
Hey , that helped me..
Thanks a lot !!
Thank you! Damn their separate executable. That should be built into the terminal service itself.
This was really useful.
None of the above works for me
I used GameXp tweak after tat i tried to restore the backup of gamexp, still copy paste isnt working
Thanks, killing and running the RDPCLIP.exe fixed the annoying problem.
Hi,
I used
taskkill.exe /f /fi "USERNAME eq domain\username" /im rdpclip.exe
Rdpclip.exe
but copy+paste still doesn't work. :S
Pls help!
Thanks,
Norbi
@Norbi A couple things.
a) Dissconnect and reconnect
b) Reboot (both)
c) When you connect to the remote machine, make sure you have clipboard support enabled in what every Remote Desktop tool you are using
d) If you're connecting to many remote machines and they are running many processes, clipboard will get and stay wonky. It might work for a bit, but then not. Nothing I've seen fixes that over the long term (though the RDPClip trick usually works)
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