title: Windows 2008 Remote Desktop will not copy+paste
body: <p>I have just set up a Guest Windows 2008 R2 Standard Edition 64bit (VirtualBox on Windows 7 64 bit host) for some testing.</p>
  
  <p>I have found that while "inside" the remote desktop environment (i.e. I remote onto the guest ip from the host) that copy and paste does not work. When I say "does not work" let me be explicit.</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Assume I am logged onto the Win2008 machine via RDC </li>
  <li>Nothing is in the copy/paste buffer. I can mouse click some text and then rclick copy. I can then right click and click "paste" but nothing happens. I can see the "choice" is enabled to paste bu nothing happens. The caret stays put.</li>
  <li>CTRL+C / CTRL-V / CTRL-X does not work in RDC land</li>
  <li>I am not talking about going in-between copy/paste RDC land/host land.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>HERE is the double whammy: when I do the above it then "infects" my host pc so that copy paste is unavailable there too. if PRT SCR doesn't work any more. </p>
  
  <p>I have tried:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>restarting the guest os and host os</li>
  <li>in group policy editor I have disabled "do not allow clip board redirection" ( I can't give you the full path to this copy/paste just broke again)</li>
  <li>I have made sure that in RDC "options" for local resources include clipboard.</li>
  <li>NB: if I don't touch RDC at all and log into the guest OS via the console copy paste works perfectly</li>
  </ul>