solution for "cannot empty the clipboard"

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Bucky

If you use remote desktop/terminal services, you may have seen the
"cannot empty the clipboard" error. Then you cannot do anymore cutting
and pasting. There have been many posts about this in the past, and
I've seen suggestions about MS hotfixes, uninstalling Office, etc., but
I haven't seen this solution, which worked for me:

Go to Task Manager > Processes
Look for "rdpclip.exe"
End that process

This is for the case where cutting and pasting works fine at first, but
after a lot of cutting and pasting, you get the "cannot empty the
clipboard" error.
 
I have exactly the same problem, and I use remote desktop, but the
"rdpclip.exe" process was not running on my computer.
 
Cannot empty the clipboard

Thank you, it fixed it...

Re:
Go to Task Manager => Processes
Look for "rdpclip.exe"
End that process
 
THANKS. This fixed my problem, which has plagued me for over a year.

NOTE: I found rdpclip.exe running on my remote computer, not my "main", or host, computer.
To get to Task Manager on the remote computer, switch to that computer, and then hit
CTRL-ALT-END (instead of CTRL-ALT-DEL). That will let you control the processes on the remote computer, instead of the host computer.
 
IT Helpdesk Vadinar - Manoj Vasoya

Simply enable and restart the clipbook service from services......and enjoy

Regards,

Manoj Vasoya
+91 9099042814

 
Do note, that you may also need to restart any MS applications currently running in order for the above fix to take effect. I had to close all MS Office programs that were running (including Communicator) and then restarted the service. After restarting my MS Office programs, cut and paste worked fine!
 
coloskier1 said:
Do note, that you may also need to restart any MS applications currently running in order for the above fix to take effect. I had to close all MS Office programs that were running (including Communicator) and then restarted the service. After restarting my MS Office programs, cut and paste worked fine!
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Even after closing MS apps sometimes exe lingers around. So while killing the rdpclip.exe, make sure to save and kill also the excel.exe, outlook.exe, word.exe etc.,
Additonally, I had to close a few more non Microsoft applications also like textpad, SQL window and a perl editor, to get this working again.
 
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