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Missing rdpclip.exe, please help
I ran autoruns this morning, and I noticed that rdpclip was checked to run, but the file is missing. I've found others who are having this issue but I couldn't find a solution. I'm running Windows 7 32bit home premium. According to autoruns, the location in the registry is:
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\Wds\rdpwd\StartupPrograms
and if I go there, the registry entry is indeed there. But the file, which should be located in C:\Windows\System32 is not there. I seem to remember that being an issue before and I don't think I ever figured it out and I just moved on. Now I'm trying to see if there's anything I can do about it.
Not sure how it went missing - I understand it involves remote copying of files. I vaguely remember a program I installed long ago that may have removed that file when I uninstalled it, but I can't remember the program.
A windows support engineer told somebody else
"If your machine acts as a Terminal Server, i.e. someone else connects to your machine using Remote Desktop, then rdpclip.exe will be loaded on your machine as part of the Terminal Server functionality. RDSCLIP is loaded on the machine allowing other machines to connect via Remote Desktop."
So maybe that was installed as part of some remote service at some point? I did have a couple times when customer service techs needed to remote connect for some software issues I was having (blackberry, Verizon FiOS), so maybe that's when this got enabled? Any help would be appreciated.
I did find these files in my C:\Windows\winsxs folder. rdpclip.exe.mui is located in the folder:
x86_microsoft-windows-t..direction.resources_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_en-us_76f9de369905896d
and rdpclip.exe is located in 2 different folders:
x86_microsoft-windows-t..lipboardredirection_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_01ac66c66c75c026
x86_microsoft-windows-t..lipboardredirection_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7601.17514_none_03dd7a8e696443c0
Could I just copy the most recent file (6.1.7601.17514) over to the system32folder along with rdpclip.exe.mui? Should I ignore rdpclip.exe.mui and only copy rdpclip.exe?
Note: I also followed this guide:
Extract Files from Windows 7 Installation DVD
and those files were not located in the system32 folder of the Windows7 install disk.
Last edited by tgfyhre; 05 Jun 2013 at 09:42.