COPY PAST between laptop and desktop - how to?

hello
i frequently need to copy past files and text between computers in same network
i tried powertweaks but does not have the option. even share mouse cannot work...so i use logitech+ that works more of less ok for mouse and keyboard....

but did not found a way to make CTRL C CONTROL V from one to another.

any sugestions?
thanks

Attached to my Fritz!Box (internet) router I have a SSD USB drive, that functions a NAT server.
On that server I have a special folder that is called 'Transport'.
When I want to send files or text from one computer or (android) tablet to another, for text I make a simple text file, for files I just write the file to that common folder and grab it from the other device.

So I have nothing to do with entering the other device (which in Windows ever was horrible, especially between different system version) and the common folder is always available.

mclaudio said:

but did not found a way to make CTRL C CONTROL V from one to another.

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I don't think that's possible!
Copying the file in that way from one computer to the other computer or to the common folder will be possible, but copying text?
If you can open the textfile on the other computer: yes you might be able to do a CTRL C CTRL V, but that's rather inconvenient, because you might not be sure where you get the text from and where you're copying it to.

Copying files is easy enough - just put files on onedrive and it syncs to both pcs. You still have to manually copy it to target folder though.

Text is more complicated as you would have to put text in a text file.

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A more complicated way that might work is to create a Hyper-V VM on remote pc which uses the remote pc hard drive as its storage (rather than a vhdx file).

Then from Hyper-V on local, connect to vm on remote pc, then cut+paste will work between local host and vm.

Basically, you would be using the hyper-v interface as a shared clipboard.

You would need pro on both pcs and be running vm in enhanced mode.

I have never tried this but I think theoretically it would work

You can do same in reverse as well.

I just draft an email in Gmail. It's available anywhere I log in.

mclaudio said:

...so i use logitech+ that works... but did not found a way to make CTRL C CONTROL V from one to another.

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Did you enable Copy/Paste for the linked keyboard in Settings?

hey good idea... will try that... usually i use microsoft teams and write a message to myself but logitech option seems good

i was asking because i thought seeing it in powertweaks but dont find it anymore

RDP, NAS, and the cloud all work for me. I don't know about CTRL+C or V. I've not checked them as I rarely use keyboard shortcuts unless I'm in a situation that requires them.. Guess I'm not as much of a puter nerd as everyone else.

My home network only includes my laptop and the upstairs PC. I use RDP to switch between them and Ctrl C and Ctrl V work just fine in both directions. This is fine in a sole user situation but probably not so where there are also other users

mclaudio said:

i frequently need to copy past files and text between computers in same network

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For the clipboard you need to sign in to both PCs with the same Microsoft account.


For files, all my PCs have a Temp folder shared out with ntfs permissions and share permissions set to everyone: full control. I copy the file to another PC's Temp share, then on the other PC move it to where I want it.