Change of focus from RDP session inserts a character

John Biggston 101 Reputation points
2024-07-25T15:05:02.39+00:00

This is a pretty obscure issue that started a couple of weeks ago, it is really interfering with my work, and so far I'm unable to come up with a solution. When I have an RDP session open, and am working on something text-based on the remote host, i.e. a powershell script, when I change focus from that session by clicking on something like a browser on my local desktop, a character is inserted in the RDP session, specifically, a "5". Every time I click on the RDP session, then away from it, another "5" is inserted. As you can imagine this causes havoc with the script I was editing on the RDP session. This happens when my session originates on either my Windows 10 or 11 desktops, and happens regardless of whether I use the standard mstsc client or another RDC manager. I've run a full AV scan on both hosts and nothing came up. I'm willing to format these systems and start clean if necessary, but I don't like the idea of not knowing the cause, so any thoughts on where to look or what to try next would be very much appreciated.

Thanks.

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  1. Rickard Robin 0 Reputation points
    2024-08-16T14:30:21.3233333+00:00

    This is so weird. Got the exact same problem! Following this thread.


  2. Faure Stephane 0 Reputation points
    2024-09-26T10:11:51.6533333+00:00

    Same issue here with French environment : French W10, French softwares (Edge, Chrome and BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access for RDP) plus French keyboard. I confirm that if you 1) turn off Num Lock BEFORE connecting to a RDP session ; 2) try to reproduce the issue (that is, switching focus from RDP session to Chromium-based app) ; 3) enable again Num Lock ; the issue won't occur, at least until you reconnect to the session. Maybe a better solution that resetting your Windows profile.

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