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Peter Turner
Asked: 2012-02-17 07:33:29 +0800 CST

Microsoft Terminal Server clipboard corruption

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I've got a client running Terminal Server 2008 R2, connecting from Windows XP terminal services client (not sure of the local RDP version, I think they've got all their service packs though) and whenever they copy text from the terminal server and paste it back on their machine, all they get is 5 Squares (regardless of what they copy or where they copy it from).

I'm debugging this for an application I am responsible for, but I get the same problem from Notepad as I do for my program, so I think it's a server problem (still my problem, eh?).

The option to use clipboard resources is checked.

terminal-server mstsc copy

2 Answers

  1. Double check the updates as suggest by Robin, also ensure you are running Remote Desktop Connection 7.0 on the XP machines (http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=20609). There are some major improvements, you can see this KB for details.

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  2. This is a known problem.

    You have 2 solutions:

    1. try RDP Client 7.0 link

    2. Hotfix for RDP 6.1 link

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