Hi,
I am facing the same problem recently when I try to connect to my other desktop at home through the team viewer application. The problem is that the copy/paste doesn't work on the remote system too when connected through the application and works when disconnected. I have tried almost most of the tips but nothing seems to be working for me. Please let me know if you have a solution to this. The remote desktop has Windows 7 on it.

Thanks..

Hi,

As per suggestion we have tried to kill rdpclip.exe and launched it back but still we are facing the issue. We have tried on may computers but did not work. Please any other option .

Thanks
Deep

You can run the following commands on your remote machine one by one.

Taskkill.exe /im rdpclip.exe
Rdpclip.exe

This is a temporary fix, alternately you can use an online copy paste toil, its great.
www.letscopypaste.com

You can run the following commands on your remote machine one by one.

Taskkill.exe /im rdpclip.exe
Rdpclip.exe

This is a temporary fix, alternately you can use an online copy paste tool, its great.

www(dot)letscopypaste(dot)com

Please run these commands in sequence

1. type cmd in run window
2. Taskkill.exe /im rdpclip.exe
3. Rdpclip.exe

This will solve your copy/paste clipboard problem, you can also use www.letscopypaste.com an online copy paste tool, easy to use and fast.

I tried killing RDPCLIP and restarting it but still it does not work. My local workstation has Win7 Pro 64 bit and I am RDPing to 'Win Server 2008 R2 Standard with SP1'. It used to work earlier but somehow it stopped after reboot of last windows update on Nov 7, 2012.

Thanks in advance for any help,

Thanks a lot, this solved my issue; great help.

Thanks a lot. It resolved my problem.

Thank you very much. It resolved my problem.

Hi tried above mention advise still i am facing the same issue ,please help me 2 resolve it ASAP

Excellent, thanks for that! Worked perfectly for me.

I know this trick works. However this happens to me and my work colleagues on a regular basis on various servers.
Does anyone know what the possible causes for the rdpclip process to stop working properly could be?

Thank You very much . It worked for me

Just restarting the rdpclip.exe process helped.

Thank you very much It really help me

If killing/restarting rdpclip.exe does not work for you...

1. Start Remote Desktop Session Host Configuration (tsconfig.msc), go to the properties of the RDP-Tcp session and on the Client Settings tab make sure that Clipboard Redirection is unchecked.

You will need to disconnect and reconnect for the change to take effect. You may still need to kill/restart rdpclip.exe.

If that still doesn't work for you...

2. Go to the Group Policy Management Console.

In \Computer Configuration\Policies\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Terminal Services\Terminal Server\Device and Resource Redirection and make sure that the "Do not allow Clipboard redirection" setting is Disabled.

REF: "Device and Resource Redirection" on MSDN.

Thank you so much. This has been annoying me for quite a while. removing rdpclip process totally works.

As per suggestion we have tried to kill rdpclip.exe and launched it back.
Thanks it worked!

Hi,

I am using remote desktop RDC 2.1.1 for Mac and I am connecting to a Windows 7 machine. THe connection works fine but I cannot make copy/paste work. Before when I was connecting to the host machine with another Windows 7 machine copy/paste worked fine. I tried stopping and starting rdcclip.exe but no luck. Any ideas would be really helpful.

The tsconfig.msc comment worked for me. Nothing else was working. The clipboard was not disabled (check box was not there) but checked the box to disable it. Hit apply, then unchecked it and hit apply again. Working fine now.

Thanks!

Great, that worked!
Thanks.

Hi All,

I hope this helps some of you.

After a lot of research, I noticed that my paste issue only occurred when I had my browser running. It transpired, that is was when any browser (Firefox, Safari, IE, etc) was running.

Long story short, it was my Webroot security software blocking some of my programs which were attempting to read the Clipboard.

It makes sense, I have a browser open so I wouldn't want an untrusted application gaining access to my clipboard as it may contain a password. I just hadn't realized that it was doing this. When I disabled the Protect Clipboard Data option, everything worked again.

Webroot prompted me to disallow / allow a particular program to access the clipboard, with an option to remember my choice. So, I gave certain programs permission and then switched the protection option back on, as I think that it is a great feature.

I would guess that other security suites use this methodology so if you are experiencing paste issues, you may find it beneficial to check your security suites settings.

Thanks a lot. This solved my issue on using the Remote desktop of win7 from winblue system.

Thank u so very much!!!! It resolved the issue.

It worked for me. Thanks a lot.

Worked for me. Thanks much for posting this.

Above mentioned solution is not working. Can any one can share solution for the issue "copy paste not working from remote desktop to local in windows server 2003"

thank u for your post. I have done it correctly.

This solution is not useful on Windows 8.1, as I am not able to copy paste while connect RDP to Windows 8.1 machine.

Please help me if any one know about this.

In some cases nothing will work except rebooting the server at fault. Some times it isn't an option so you'll have restort to save the information to files to transport back and forth.

This is one of the world oldest bugs still at large. Almost 2 decades old.
Few years ago I found information that Microsoft has no intentions to fix this bug.

It has to do with some kind of resource limitation or leaks. There are several data structures that haven't changed since the beginning of RDP, when memory was expensive en every free KB mattered. Some of the cause problems in high resolutions and when you have loaded Remote Desktop Servers.

No bug has cost my more wasted hours the last 15 years, it's in the hundreds.

Its perfectly working and simply superb the explanation.

Solved the issue. It worked. Thanks a lot

Your way doesn't work for my scenario. My scenario:

Remote to a VM: shared cliboard works.
Remote to a physical PC: shared clipboard doesn't work.

It is working. It worked when I checked the Administrator privileges box. Thanks for this informative article.

Solved the issue. It worked. Thanks a lot.

Thank you. The instructions worked for me!

It Worked. Thanks for you instructions.

It is working for me by killing rdpclip.exe process in remote desktop.

Hi

Thanks for sharing this article with us. Nice Post.

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I have a work around. For RDS 2008 I had no problem copying and pasting, I set the session host/gateway to accept clipboard. However, with RDS 2016, I had to enable drive mapping for clipboard to work. RDS 2016 is very buggy and I hope they release fixes in R2. Of course, with drive mapping all the client drives came over, which I was not pleased about, but that is something they will have to fix. I performed a typical installation on RDS 2016 and the process is fully automated and really nothing you can mess up. RDS 2008 had a lot more configuration steps that could be performed. There was also a GUI to modify the .rdp file directly, which I have not found a way to do this is RDS 2016.