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June 27, 2007

How to open the task manager on a windows remote desktop session

Filed under: Windows — techteam @ 1:19 am

Ctrl + Alt + delete on local session will give you the option to open the task manager, but what about if you are remoting into another server.

Ctrl + Shift + Esc did the trick for me

10 Comments »

  1. Ctrl + Shift + Esc works for me also , remote desktop to windows server 2003

    Comment by cowlover — August 7, 2007 @ 2:02 pm | Reply

  2. If you want to bring up the shut-down dialog on the remote machine you can always use the old go-to command Alt+F4

    Comment by cowlover — September 13, 2007 @ 1:24 am | Reply

  3. Thanks a lot! Ctrl + Shift + Esc worked for me too!!

    Comment by keneree — December 24, 2008 @ 7:38 am | Reply

  4. I am using Ctrl + Alt + End on a remote desktop and that is the same as Ctrl + Alt + delete on a local desktop.

    Comment by Peter — February 19, 2009 @ 1:21 pm | Reply

    • Ctrl Alt End worked for me after hours of frustration before I found this useful tip. Thank You!

      Comment by Desi — August 9, 2009 @ 11:30 am | Reply

  5. on xp ctrl-alt-end works

    thx a lot

    Comment by crazyionutz — March 18, 2009 @ 10:57 am | Reply

  6. ctrl+alt+end worked thanks man!

    Comment by justindude — May 11, 2009 @ 9:07 pm | Reply

  7. Pressing any sequence of keys that includes ESC breaks my connection. CTRL+ALT+END doesn’t work for me either.

    Comment by Monika — December 3, 2009 @ 3:58 pm | Reply

  8. On XP remote machine, I used to go to Start-setting-windows security to get the task manager. But yesterday windows explorer had a metldown and I lost my START button.

    cntl+alt+esc worked and is MUCH easier. Thanks!

    Comment by ann — December 6, 2009 @ 2:02 pm | Reply

  9. doh! I mean, cntl+shift+esc worked for me.

    Comment by ann — December 6, 2009 @ 2:03 pm | Reply


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