Fixing the Remote Desktop Clipboard

Most remote desktop power users have noticed that sometimes the clipboard sharing feature stops working. There's an easy workaround:

  1. On the remote machine, run Task Manager
  2. Kill the "rdpclip.exe" process
  3. Restart the process by going to Start, Run and typing "rdpclip"

Good as new! I'm not sure why the clipboard sync issues occur in the first place, and they can often return, occasionally forcing you to repeat this process.

Comments

Kill/restart it on the host machine, the client machine, or both?
  • Ethan
  • November 17, 2008
  • 3:57 pm
Client machine - I updated the post to include this detail.
  • Ryan
  • December 9, 2008
  • 3:56 pm
great tip, thanks!
  • Tom
  • January 5, 2009
  • 6:06 pm
That is a *top* tip. Cheers! :-)
  • MIguel
  • August 21, 2009
  • 12:01 am
Great tip thanks
  • Sander
  • November 20, 2009
  • 5:22 am
Works great, thnx alot!
  • mikko
  • January 14, 2010
  • 2:16 am
Excellent, thanks, helped me a lot!
  • Gaju
  • November 4, 2010
  • 12:40 am
Thank you so very much. Incredible headache, not having proper clipboard support.
  • devang
  • February 23, 2011
  • 12:33 am
Excellent tip....realy works...far better then some other sites having loads of procedure to do such simpel tasks...hats off!!!
  • Sada
  • June 27, 2011
  • 4:16 pm
Awesome...Thanks so much!
  • umair
  • October 5, 2011
  • 6:45 pm
Thanks a alot. great tip:)
  • Himani sharma
  • December 6, 2011
  • 10:29 am
Bingo. It worked. I killed the process on my remote machine and then re-initiated the RDP session
  • Obsteel
  • February 23, 2012
  • 5:13 am
it worked thanks
  • June 9, 2012
  • 10:35 am
Gracias!!!
  • Thomas
  • August 11, 2012
  • 8:33 am
Thank you, that works great!
  • Preyo
  • September 11, 2012
  • 6:54 am
Thanks very much you saved my alot of time
  • Ghazi Sarhan
  • December 31, 2012
  • 3:09 am
Thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanks
  • Jason
  • October 28, 2013
  • 5:57 pm
Thanks!!
  • fdfsdf
  • January 28, 2016
  • 6:30 am
Thanks a lot!
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