Remote Desktop is one of the best features of Windows. Unfortunately all the different Windows version of Remote Desktop seem to have a copy and paste bug. Pasting from the local machine to the remote machine in Remote Desktop will just randomly stop working.
I’ve been plagued with this problem for a long time but I never found a way to fix it. Now I found a simple method that works: On the remote machine kill the rdpclip.exe task and restart it. Pasting will immediately start working again!
Kill the rdpclip.exe task whichever way you want. You can use Task Manager, or you can use this one line command to kill and restart it automatically.
taskkill.exe /im rdpclip.exe & rdpclip.exe
#1 by martin on May 28, 2008 - 10:35 am
Thank you for this tip.
regards
ML
#2 by bo on July 10, 2008 - 7:31 am
nope. doesnt help
#3 by Brad on October 30, 2008 - 4:33 am
rdpclip task stop / restart doesn’t work for me either.
SOLUTION:
in my XP environments, if you end the remote desktop session and then restart it, the problem goes away and you can paste from the clipboard to a remote target app.
see:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Clipboard_not_working
#4 by ALbert on March 4, 2009 - 2:36 pm
hmm…
After first rdp login…
copy only text to the clipboard and then
paste it work for me.
#5 by Simone Licini on May 22, 2009 - 12:38 am
Very good solution!!!
Thank you patrick, you solve me lot of trouble!!!
#6 by tony on May 31, 2009 - 8:31 pm
mad props, this was driving me crazy!
#7 by BromleyJohn on June 10, 2009 - 7:14 am
Excellent. Thanks.
#8 by mark on September 9, 2009 - 4:56 am
make sure the c drive is also checked in local resources
#9 by chris on November 6, 2009 - 6:47 am
Thsi did not work for me on server 2003. This problem wastes so much time I finally have to find a solution
#10 by jen on December 17, 2009 - 11:13 am
worked for me – thanks
#11 by Eric on March 3, 2010 - 8:32 am
When pasting from remote desktop to Excel I was having a similar problem in XP/Office 2007, I found the problem was with the clipboard in Excel. I closed Excel are reopened Excel to fix.
Thanks.
#12 by Peter on March 5, 2010 - 6:03 am
Thank you saved so much time!
#13 by Chuck on June 23, 2010 - 2:50 pm
Thanks! It worked when killing rdpclip.exe via the task manager (i.e. Start -> Run -> “taskmgr’) and restarting it using the command line (i.e. Start -> Run -> “rdpclip.exe’)
#14 by nram on July 12, 2010 - 7:54 am
Wondeful. Saved my day.
#15 by RJ on July 22, 2010 - 1:11 pm
I found that using Remote Desktop copy/paste file function was extremely slow.
Solution: click start>>run>> type %temp%
delete all files . Do this on both pc’s and next thing you know you are back to normal.