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title: "Windows key \"stuck\" in Remote Desktop..."
date: 2007-09-19
canonical: https://michaelshadle.com/2007/09/19/windows-key-stuck-in-remote-desktop
---

# Windows key "stuck" in Remote Desktop...

You think keeping up to date is a good idea, however, the last version of RDC now has an annoying bug. It seems if you use the Windows-L combination to lock your machine (in person), the next time you connect via Remote Desktop the system acts like the Windows key is stuck. I don't know if this happens 100% of the time, but this has been happening to me now consistently for over a week and I finally remembered to see if it is truly an issue or not.

Sure enough, tons of other people have complained, but there doesn't seem to be a permanent fix. There are a couple options - a "soft hack" method where you use the On-screen Keyboard and just click the Windows key on/off, a registry hack that will disable the Windows keys altogether, and quite possibly downgrading to the slightly older RDC version.

Here's some relevant threads. The OSK idea works simple enough; however it shouldn't be an issue no matter what, especially since the Windows key is not passed through RDC anyway.  

  
-   [http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1032335&SiteID=17](http://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/winserverTS/thread/cbaae74e-8311-4a46-a842-31dcdd6878dc/)
  
-   [http://www.altirigos.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=4857](http://www.altirigos.com/vbulletin/carbon-copy/4857-windows-key-stuck-when-remoting.html)
  

  
Hopefully there will be a proper fix soon. I'd rather not have to disable keys or manually have to click buttons every time I connect via RDC...