HOWTO: Copy & Paste between Local and Remote Desktop

Posted on January 3, 2007 by Black God

This HowTo covers how to copy and paste the files/text/graphics (Clipboard) content between remote desktop session and local computer in Windows XP.

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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  • Betina

    Great tip! Thank you very much! I’ve been dealing with this problem since weeks!! THANKS from ARGENTINA!

  • adrien

    hi there, just came across this site when doing a search on the subject.
    when connected to a 2003 terminal server i am able to copy/paste files (word documents) between the local desktop and the terminal desktop.
    when remotely connecting to another XP machine on the same network, i am not able to achieve that ability. if i try to manually open clipbrd on the remote session, i get an error stating that the clipbook service cannot start on a terminal server session.

    is anyone else able to copy and paste entire files between xp -> xp sessions ?

  • George

    THANKS SO MUCH! This was bugging me for the longest time.

  • Jisa

    Thank you so much.. This helped me a lot

  • sandy

    have been searching for this for a long time.. thanks a lot for sucha useful tip

  • Saravanan

    Hi there, i hope this is such a wonterfull tip which you cannot find in many places and most people dont know including me. But unfortunately its not working for me. My local machine is Windows XP and Remote client is Windows 2003 standard. I have enabled all the services whatever you mentioned above.

    Anything else i should do, to acheive this functionality. Please help.

  • Parks

    I tried this great trick that I have been wanting to do for oh so long, but I suspect my systems are just not up to date enough! I have all the services and started them in the required order, but get this message: ClipBook Viewer – The Clipbook service is not available from a Terminal Server remote session. My workstation is Windows 2000 Pro and the remote system is Windows 2000 Server. Nice try! Thanks for the tip!

  • Cherith Paisley

    Thank you so much

  • http://www.ewmcom.com Irfan Ahmed Khan

    Thank you very much indeed

  • kranthikata

    hi

    still not able to copy & paste please help me

  • MANOJ

    Thanks buddy!

  • http://gordosoft.com Gordo

    Not sure if this info is outdated or not but none of these three services were running on my client or server and starting them did not help.

    What I did find that helped: to fix a copy/paste funcation no longer working on a remote desk toptop connection, go to the remote desktop server, task manager – kill “rdpclip.exe” and then restart it by clicking start->run and typing rdpclip.exe

    copy/paste started working again good as usual after this. No need to run any of these services.

  • GG

    Gordo,
    Your trick worked. Thanks a lot. I was having this problem for a long time. ….

    GG

  • yowa

    very good,thanks

  • renish

    Hey great info it worked for me… thanks so much!!!

  • Nishant

    Start all three Services, But Still I am not able to copy and paste Between Local and Remote Machine.

  • maxi_smile
  • Daniel

    download
    http://download.microsoft.com/download/win2000platform/rdpclip/1.0/NT5/EN-US/rdpclip_hotfix.exe
    and exctact in, do not try to install. Perform manual install in a way describer in misrocoft support in Article ID : 244732.
    As far as I checked it works fine on windows 2000 server and windows 2003 server, in combination with first solutin dascribed here

  • Chinmay Trivedi

    TO do this the best way is …

    1. GO to Start->All Programs->Accessories-> Communications-> Remote Desktop Connection -> Options -> Local Resources -> check the DISK DRIVES option and connect to the remote PC the copy paste work automaticaly…

  • Sourabh

    Hey Nice trick… thanks a lot for sharing this information

    Sourabh

  • Ricardo

    Thank you very much!!!

  • Ankush

    Waoooooo. Such a great help. Thanks Chinmay.

  • http://balazee4u.blogspot.com Balaji Chilla

    Hey,

    Thanks a lot……it is working fine…
    http://download.microsoft.com/download/win2000platform/rdpclip/1.0/NT5/EN-US/rdpclip_hotfix.exe

    Keep Posting…..

    Bye.
    Your’s
    Balazee Chilla

  • laura savitri

    Thank you Chinmay!!

  • http://www.medjugorjetravelandsouvenirs.com/ Goran Maric

    This is great help for me,thx a lot for all this,now I can go on my next step.THX