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Shawyeok
Shawyeok

Reputation: 1238

Shortkeys with win key is not working when use remote desktop

I have a question about windows remote desktop, that's it. When I use remote desktop, I cannot use any shotkeys with Win key in the remote window, for example : win+D win+E. When I press win key, it should open the start menu, but nothing happened.

My client is windows 8.1, the remote machine is windows server 2008 r2.

Have you met this problem? What should I do? Thanks.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 16991

Answers (2)

DanijelO
DanijelO

Reputation: 11

This works for me:

  1. Close all RDP Clients on remote machine
  2. Close all RDP Clients on local machine
  3. Try again

Upvotes: 1

Silvia Doomra
Silvia Doomra

Reputation: 953

Is your remote desktop in full screen mode?

When you launch mstsc.exe, click on 'Show Options', and go to 'Launch Resources' tab. This should have an option under 'Keyboard' section -> 'Apply Windows key combinations:'. It should be 'Only when using the full screen'. if you want to use Win+ combination of keys only on your remote computer, then you can select the option 'Only the remote computer'.

Hope this helps!

Thanks,

Silvia Doomra

Upvotes: 3

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