Occasionally, when I have a Virtual PC session running on my computer, the clipboard on the host stops working. I can copy or cut an item but the paste shortcuts don’t work. Also all the paste menus on the host computer are disabled. I’m not talking about pasting to the VPC. A simple copy/paste in notepad running on the host doesn’t work.
Shutting down the Virtual PC session restores the paste functionality but is a very unsatisfying solution.
The Fix
Today I found a fix that doesn’t involve shutting down the VPC. I’m guessing the problem is caused by the Virtual Machine Additions service running on the guest computer.
- Select text on host PC
- Copy text to clipboard
- Use the Virtual PC menu to paste into doc on VPC
- This uses the VPC native paste feature, not the Virtual Machine Additions paste.
- VPC will slowly, character by character, copy the info to the guest.
- Return to host and see if clipboard is functioning again
-Walt Ritscher
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Well done. I ran into this problem and your blog helped.
Fantastic! This has been bugging me for AGES! Nice fix
Excellent! Solved my problem. Thanks for posting this!
Superb. Just had the same issue here. Thanks.
Wonderful, you’re a life saver! Thank you
I find killing and restarting ‘rdpclip.exe’ does the trick too.
If you’re running process explorer in the VM, you can do this easily by right clicking and selecting ‘restart’…. or just write a batch file to use taskkill.exe on rppclip, then run it again
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Walt,
How in the world did you figure this out?
Nice job!!
Karl
great job!!
but still wondering the reason….why it works this way?
My problem when using Virtual PC is that it disables my ability to copy paste completely, I am unable to copy paste even outside of Virtual PC.
@David
That’s the point of this post. Occassionally the hosting PC cannot paste. Follow the tips to fix the problem.
Thanks for the post… saves many headaches.
I was previously saving to a file on the host (via VM shared folder feature) then opening the file on the host. Or I would mail it to myself while in the VM machine and open the email in the host…. all of which was a pain in the ARSE!
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I had a similar problem.
I couldn’t copy/past through the vm-border in either direction.
But copying only inside or only outside worked.
One of the posts earlier gave me the right idea.
Starting and stopping the vm-additions helped.
I just made a batchfile with the following content:
net stop “1-VMSRVC”
net start “1-VMSRVC”
Great fix
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Thank you very much for taking the time to post the solution to this extremely annoying problem. I was going without clipboard many days because a reboot was too much of a hassle.
The only fix that worked for me was Berthold’s
net stop “1-VMSRVC”
net start “1-VMSRVC”
Thanks!!!!
Note: This is stopping and starting the Virtual Machine Additions Services Application service which handles the clipboard inside the virtual pc.
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Great Tip keep up the great Work mate !!!!!
Thank you so much!!!