Comments on: Copy and Paste is not working on my Remote Desktop Connection… what’s wrong?

By: Emmanuel Carabott

Emmanuel Carabott — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:18:27 +0000

@obaia if rdpclip is not running all you need to do is click on start, choose run and type in rdpclip.exe and press okay.

By: obaia

obaia — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:37:07 +0000

I to cannot cut and paste using xp pro.32 bit.. rdpclip is not listed in my windows task manager
how can I restore it. step by step
thanks

By: Dan Morphis

Dan Morphis — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:51:23 +0000

If the clipboard is still not working after restarting the rdpclip process, then clipboard redirection is probably disabled.

To enable it, open mmc, add/remove snap-in, terminal services configuration.

In there, under the “Connections” heading, right-click on the listed connection and choose properties. On the “Client Settings” tab, under the “Redirection” heading, *uncheck* “Clipboard” Click “OK”

Finally, log off/logon and clipboard should now work for you!

By: Emmanuel Carabott

Emmanuel Carabott — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:44:18 +0000

Hi Big Ian,

I am sorry this didn’t work for you. I need you to answer a few questions so that maybe I can help you out; did you confirm rdpclip.exe started successfully when you tired to restart it?

Also, some people reported that rdpclip.exe was missing for them, is that the problem you experianced?

Did you perform the procedure on the W7 or W2k8?

By: Big Ian

Big Ian — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:44:46 +0000

Followed the steps above no joy copy & paste still do not work. Any thoughts?

W7 (32bit) >> W2K8 R2 (64bit)

By: Igor Longagnani

Igor Longagnani — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:46:30 +0000

Nice post n working fix. I would add another corollary:
- if you work in a team, pls be sure you’re not “stealing” someone else RDP Connection (e.g. Windows Server 2003 makes them available).
In this case connect through RDP, Logoff -> check the fix (rdpclip must be running) and reconnect through your RDP. voilà remote cut’n'paste.

By: Saeed Neamati

Saeed Neamati — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 13:28:20 +0000

Man, I was almost reinstalled the whole server, because of this damn Copy/Paste failure. Thank you very much for preventing me to do that.

By: Roger

Roger — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 17:56:13 +0000

Thank you much for your help.

By: Emmanuel Carabott

Emmanuel Carabott — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 07:48:08 +0000

rdpclip.exe should be in the windows\system32 folder

If it is missing from there, that might explain why copy and paste is no longer working for you. If it got deleted for whatever reason, you will need to restore it or alternatively copy it over from some other windows 7 installation if you have that.

By: Roger

Roger — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 20:03:33 +0000

I have the same problem of copying from the office (Server) to my remote computer (Win 7, IE9). It worked fine until a few months ago. Maybe caused by an update to the MS server software.
I could not locate rdpclip.exe on my computer. Is that something that should be done at the server side?