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Shift and Control keys out of sync with normal keys over RDP

Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 202637640 views
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I spend quite a lot of time working on various machines via RDP (usually RDPing to one machine and from there RDPing to other computers outside our LAN) and have an issue where the modifier keys (i.e., Ctrl, Alt, Shift, and Win) sometimes don't take effect as quickly as standard keystrokes. For exa…

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Fix for: Shift and Control keys out of sync with normal keys over RDP

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It is the way the RDP client responds to control keys. To resolve, try going into the options for the Remote Desktop Connection>Local Resources>Keyboard and change to "On This Computer". Be aware that alt+Tab and similar commands will now run on the…

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