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How can I restore copy/paste functionality for my remote desktop connection?

Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 2026187474 views
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My question has been asked on superuser before, but the accepted answer did not work for me. Sometimes when using remote desktop on my Windows 7 computer, the copy-paste functionality between the remote desktop and my computer suddenly stops working. How can I restore it? I have looked at Fixing copy/paste for Remote Desktop Connection sessions and SQLAuthority News – Fix : Remote Desktop Copy Paste Stop Working But killing and restarting rdpclip doesn't seem to work for me. How can I fix this? This is driving me a bit crazy. Restarting the computer or the remote desktop connection doesn't work either. Anyone have any ideas?

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You can run the following commands on your remote machine one by one. This is a temporary fix, alternately you can use an online copy paste tool.

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