solution for "cannot empty the clipboard"

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.

"Bucky" wrote:

> 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.
>
>