Comments on: Send Ctrl-Alt-Delete in a remote desktop session

By: Kalpana

Kalpana — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 16:28:14 +0000

What about with a Mac connection?

By: LoveYa2

LoveYa2 — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 20:30:44 +0000

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By: Kiles

Kiles — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:04:21 +0000

If you want to print the active window in a remote desktop session, I believe it is Ctrl-Alt-Minus. I’m still not sure how to print screen on a remote computer. Anyone know?

By: Senthil

Senthil — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:02:53 +0000

Can i know how to switch between the remote desktop and the host desktop. Any ideas? Using keyboard shortcuts. PLz help….If you know.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:00:29 +0000

When using a remote app window on Server 2008, hitting the ‘Delete’ key acts like Ctrl+Alt+Delete. Does anyone know how to turn this off so the ‘Delete’ key acts normally, i.e. deletes characters in my application?

By: Cecile

Cecile — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:19:04 +0000

If you are connected remotely two machines in, i.e. A is remoted into B and B is remoted into C, I believe you can make the window full screen and then it responds to all keyboard strokes directly. Let me know if it works.

By: Binu

Binu — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:32:31 +0000

Thanks for the info, it helps me to restart my VPS.

By: Vivek Phatak

Vivek Phatak — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:59:08 +0000

We have to use Windows with Domain. Whenever we start PC; it asks for ALT + CTL + DEL command & then asks for Domain username & password. Now we do not waant to use physical keyboard & want to use On Screen keyboard to start log in into the system. Pls. advise.

By: Read

Read — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:03:11 +0000

Moosa,

Cute response. But there’s not always a taskbar to right-click on. My client thinks he’s making his server more secure by forcing the remote user to manually start Windows Explorer. To do that you have to run Task Manager before you ever see the taskbar. So you are forced to use a keyboard shortcut to run Task Manager (as opposed to just right clicking on the taskbar). Once Task Manager is up, you can then manually start Windows Explorer by [File --> New Task --> C:\WINDOWS\explorer.exe].

By: Moosa

Moosa — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 03:40:47 +0000

well;

I would prefer to right-click on the taskbar of the remote PC and run the Task Manager ….

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:10:49 +0000

To send key combos via two rdps, I noticed if you add shift to the key combo it works.

So for ctrl-alt-del it would be ctrl-alt-end for rdp session 1 and ctrl-alt-shift-end for the rdp session a running under rdp session 1.

Just an FYI from what I’ve noticed. Doesn’t seem to work w/ alt-pageup, but works for task manager and ctrl-alt-del.

By: Charles

Charles — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:53:16 +0000

Hi,

I’m trying to use ctrl+alt+minus to take a screen shot of the active window on the remote computer and paste it into a document (also on the remote computer) but it’s not working. When I go to paste, there’s nothing on the clipboard. The remote computer is running XP, the computer I’m remote desktopping from is Vista. Any ideas?

By: Read

Read — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:48:50 +0000

PaulShell,

I figured it out. Start the On-Screen Keyboard on computer B, and send a “Ctrl+Alt+End” with it. This will essentially send a “Ctrl+Alt+Del” to computer C.

By: Read

Read — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:18:19 +0000

I also need to be able to do what PaulShell is talking about. How can you send a Ctrl+Alt+Del to a computer that is more than 1 remote connection away?

By: PaulShell

PaulShell — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:09:36 +0000

What if I use remote desktop to connect another remote desktop, like:

A -> B -> C

How can I send ctrl+alt+end to C ?