Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Remote Desktop Copy & Paste problem

I am consistently amazed by the wealth of information available in the blogosphere. Here is an example:

I spend a lot of time working in Remote Desktop sessions, and lately I had noticed that quite often I would lose the ability to copy and paste text between my local machine and the Remote Desktop session. This finally became annoying enough that I decided to research the issue. After a quick Google search, the first link took me to a blog post by Pinal Dave that explained how to solve my exact problem. The summary is that the problem can be solved by following these steps in the Remote Desktop session:

1. Open Task Manager
2. Kill the “rdpclip.exe” process
3. Restart the process by using Start >> Run >> rdpclip.exe

This simple solution has saved me a lot of aggravation.