![]() ![]() That said, I’m increasingly inclined to believe that RDC’s days on the Windows 10 desktop might be numbered. Right now, use whichever one you like best. It looks like I won’t have reason to complain should MS do likewise, and kill off RDC in favor of the more modern RDApp. With the recent news about Microsoft pushing users from the System widget in Control Panel to Settings → System → About, that’s probably a good thing. But it seems there’s no longer any good reason to prefer one over the other. I cheerfully confess being habituated to RDC and still reach for it instinctively to access the other 6 PCs in my office (and the 3 other PCs elsewhere in the house right now). ![]() Looks like users can go either way, and work with either remote desktop access tool. This removed my long-standing objections to the RDApp, and my equally long-standing preference for the older RDC application. CHECK the box marked Remote Desktop and both boxes to the left field. Scroll through the list of programs and features until you find Remote Desktop. Today, when I tried a classic text cut-n-paste inside RDapp on my Lenovo X380 Yoga test machine from Notepad, Explorer, Everything, and other apps, text cut-n-paste worked perfectly. Click Allow a program or feature through Windows Firewall. This also worked fine in RDC, but not in RDapp. One couldn’t use CTRL-C on the target PC (cut or copy) and CTRL-V on the host PC (paste) to grab text from the target PC and then paste that text into an application running on the host PC desktop. ![]() This still doesn’t work right (I just tried it), but Snip & Sketch is not subject to that limitation.Įarlier versions of Windows 10 also had problems with the clipboard/paste buffer. I’ve gotten in the habit of using RDC because back before Snip & Sketch became the recommended native screen-grab tool in Windows 10, its Snipping Tool predecessor couldn’t gab evanescent screen info - such as Start menu contents, for example - from the target PC desktop inside RDApp. Both applications are nearly identical and use the same underlying Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) to do their respective things. By process of elimination, that means RDApp is the Remote Desktop app whose menu icon appears at the right in that same graphic. With the Microsoft Remote Desktop app, you can connect to a remote PC and your work resources from almost anywhere. Experience the power of Windows with RemoteFX in a Remote Desktop client designed to help you get your work done wherever you are. RDC is, of course, the Remote Desktop Connection application start-up window shown at the left on the lead-in graphic for this story. Microsoft Remote Desktop 8 for PC and Mac. ![]()
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