Keyboard shortcuts not working on Remote Desktop

How To Use the Same Keyboard Combinations on Remote Desktop

By
Kent Chen
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June 28, 2016
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When you are on Remote Desktop, especially when its not in Full-Screen mode, you cant use the same Win key combinations as you do on your regular desktop. And thats because, by default, the Remote Desktop Connection doesnt capture and map the local hot keyboard combination to the RDP environment. And to me, thats a little less user-friendly, especially on Windows 8.1 and 10 that have a lot more new and useful Win Keyboard Combinations.

To allow RDP session to use the local Win hot keyboard combinations,

Go to Remote Desktop Connection options,

Keyboard shortcuts not working on Remote Desktop

Switch to Local Resources tab, and look at the settings in Keyboard section. You can choose one of the three settings available.

  • On this computer
  • On the remote computer
  • Only when using the full screen

The option on the remote computer is the one that allows you to use the same Win key combinations on the Remote Desktop machine, whether its in full-screen mode or not.

Keyboard shortcuts not working on Remote Desktop

Alternatively, you can discard the settings above and use the equivalent keyboard shortcuts listed below, if you want to challenge your brain a little bit more by trying to remember two different sets of keyboard shortcuts that do the same thing.

Keyboard shortcuts not working on Remote Desktop

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