RDP Clipboard Anchor

Productivity Tool

RDP Clipboard Anchor is a modern, highly efficient productivity tool built for the Windows ecosystem designed to bridge the gap between Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) sessions and your local machine.

By intelligently intercepting and anchoring the clipboard content transferred from RDP sessions, it transforms your transient remote clipboard into a persistent, easily accessible file and text history block on your local desktop.

🚀 Key Features

• Seamless Drag & Drop: The core killer feature. Instantly convert RDP cached pictures, code snippets, or files into tangible artifacts. Drag items directly from the history list to Windows Explorer, Slack, WeChat, or any other native window—bypassing the traditional "Paste" step.
• Decoupled Iconography: A clean visual hierarchy displaying native Windows file icons coupled with tiny source badges (Local Desktop vs. Remote RDP), making it easy to identify at a glance what was copied and where it came from.
• Deep Cache Management: Automatically caches lightweight text and images while placing extra-large remote files in a safe "Too Large" suspended state. Users can optionally initiate a manual [⬇️ Download] to bypass default limits.
• Privacy-First "Pause" Mode: Working with a password manager or copying sensitive private keys? Just toggle the 🟢 Monitoring badge to pause the anchor seamlessly. (Plus, it actively ignores well-known Password Manager transient copy events).
• System Tray Integration: Run it silently in the background. It catches clipboard events silently and allows you to call up the history list from the system tray or via quick access only when you need it.
• Fluent Design: Built with WinUI 3, bringing the gorgeous, fluid, and immersive Windows 11 modern design aesthetics to a productivity utility.
• Debounce & Intelligent Merging: Never deal with duplicate items when restoring old text to your current clipboard.

🛠 Prerequisites

• OS: Windows 10 (Version 19041 or higher) or Windows 11.
• Framework: Windows App SDK & WinUI 3.
• Requires active usage of Remote Desktop Connections for remote file fetching features to activate.

📦 How to Use

1. Launch RDP Clipboard Anchor.
2. Connect to your Remote Desktop session.
3. Hit Ctrl+C on any text, image, or file within the RDP window.
4. The content automatically lands in the Anchor list on your local machine.
5. Drag, drop, open, or restore the content to your local clipboard at any time!

🤝 Support

This project aims to be a top-tier utility tool for sysadmins, remote workers, and developers. Check out the project at PruneLab/rdp-clipboard-anchor-issues.