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Wed, 27 Feb 2013 01:31:04 +0000

[...] Fix : Remote Desktop Copy Paste Stop Working [...]

By: Prem

Prem — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 10:11:28 +0000

Excellent!!! Thanks.

By: SQL SERVER – Weekly Series – Memory Lane – #013 « SQL Server Journey with SQL Authority

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 01:31:13 +0000

[...] Fix : Remote Desktop Copy Paste Stop Working Though not a SQL Solution, this has to be one of the most annoying issues I faced in my career when working on Windows Server. After posting this blog post, I realized that I was not the first one who faced this issue and there are many others who have faced similar issues. [...]

By: Jonny

Jonny — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 04:50:59 +0000

Thanxs

By: Tanya

Tanya — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 17:51:57 +0000

Thanks! Tried so many other solutions found on internet first, this was the one that worked for me. Really would have been SOL without the copy/paste from remote to local.

By: letscopypaste

letscopypaste — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 08:10:41 +0000

you can try following commands in sequence on your remote machine.

1. taskKill.exe /im rdpclip.exe
2. rdpclip.exe

This will definitely solve your problem, if not you can try using http://www.letscopypaste.com. This is an online clipboard application and it works great.

By: Anju

Anju — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 09:36:43 +0000

it didnt work for me…….. i am still unable to copy/ paste to the remote desktop.

By: SQLLover

SQLLover — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:25:50 +0000

You are a lifesaver thanks!

By: dexter

dexter — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 08:10:13 +0000

Thanks! I was panicking like hell until I found the solution…

By: Martin Boado

Martin Boado — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 10:00:12 +0000

wonderfull, it was the probelm!!! rdpclip.exe
Thanks, i can´t work without the copy-paste service

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 25 May 2012 15:53:49 +0000

Very nice, worked perfect. As always, you are a trusted resource my friend.

By: rajkvwordpress

rajkvwordpress — Wed, 02 May 2012 07:09:25 +0000

Hello sir , i am using open office and remote desktop, remote desktop allow only once to copy items. It gives error” the content of clipboard cannot be deleted”
I tried your method but it works for single copy paste operation only after that i have to disconnect and re connect remote desktop for using again copy paste data . Please reply.

By: coolan

coolan — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 06:10:34 +0000

very nice article thanks

By: Mark Womack

Mark Womack — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:26:06 +0000

I love you! I have been trying to figure this out for a long time.

By: Carol

Carol — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:02:16 +0000

Legend! Thank you!

By: lechien

lechien — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:24:34 +0000

Thanks for this!!!

By: ranjithcheemarla

ranjithcheemarla — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:57:05 +0000

It worked perfectly for me…..this issue is pain in the ass…thanks for sharing

By: Laura Bryson

Laura Bryson — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:04:06 +0000

Thank you for this post, this issue has been driving me crazy. Another workaround for us (Windows 7 clients with Windows 2008 servers) is to turn off the Clipboard on the Remote Desktop client options (under Local Resources).

By: John Pennington

John Pennington — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:26:42 +0000

1) When you first run Remote Desktop Connection, go to options, then the Local Resources tab, and then make sure Clipboard is checked.

2) Second, create a batch file on the remote machine as follows:

c:\windows\system32\TaskKill.exe /im c:\windows\system32\rdpclip.exe
c:\windows\system32\rdpclip.exe

3) Then create a shortcut to the batch file.

Whenever the cut and paste stops working, just click on that shortcut, and you should be functional again.

By: Javier

Javier — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:43:03 +0000

Thank you for the useful info, I saved valuable time from your post. Prosperity.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 22:16:53 +0000

This is an excellent post. I spent hours trying to figure this thing out and finally found your post.
thank you.

By: Ashwini

Ashwini — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 09:14:24 +0000

It worked for me. Thax.

By: Louis

Louis — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 09:14:46 +0000

Thanks, this was driving me nuts!

By: KA

KA — Tue, 17 May 2011 07:53:45 +0000

Thanks for this solution! It was indeed very frustrating to have the copy-paste stop working

By: antoine

antoine — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 12:53:58 +0000

None of the solutions proposed on the internet worked for me, so I tried to log off the remote machine, but it wanted to close my program (which is R) and started the countdown “ending in 30 sec” (or smth) so I canceled.

And then it worked…

I guess when it’s preparing to close the session it clears the stuff that you want fixed :). Pretty technical I know :).