Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Copy Paste not working inside Windows RDP?

You know the solution to the problem! You remote into the Windows server and paste the script, excited. Then you paste it again and then one more time only to find out nothing is getting transferred. Then you go back and try it again. It is frustrating isn't it. Especially since at the same time everyone else is having no issues doing the same thing. Well, next time you face this problem, launch the Task Manager and look for a process called "rdpclip.exe"running under your user id. Kill it and then restart it using the Run prompt. Things should magically start working. 

You should know that this process only runs if someone else is logged onto your computer using remote desktop. It is a server side process. This process has some known issues as well like sometimes it can eat up too much memory and CPU. When you exit out of a remote desktop session with something stuck in your clipboard then you run the chance of confusing this process. In any case it is safe to kill at the end of the remote session before logging off.

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