Thursday, September 1, 2011

Copy and paste from remote desktop

This trick is for windows, mind you.

Since I was remoting into a Windows 7 machine from an XP, I had to do this trick on my older XP and then disconnect. When I reconnected (make sure you have the "Clipboard" option selected) everything worked fine.


Follow the following instruction in both local and remote computers.

Go to Start->Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Services. Enable and start the following services in the order shown below:

1. Network DDE DSDM 2. Network DDE 3. ClipBook

If you want to see the clipboard action in live:

You can go to Start->Run and type clipbrd and click OK to run clip board viewer. You will be shown current clipboard objects in this viewer.

Now you can use standard copy/paste menu options of the applications in both the computers to exchange the data.


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