CTRL ALT DELETE does not work from Hyper-V Console

Question

_{Thursday, May 24, 2012 1:39 PM}

I  have a Windows 2008 R2 SP1 VHD that was created and running on a Windows 2008 R2 Standard machine for some time with no issues.  Last night I shut down the guest os and copied the vhd to a new Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise server.  Now everything seems fine except for CTRL ALT DELETE using the Hyper-V console.  I am able to rdp in.  Other guests on the same server are working as expected.  I have read many of the other posts and none really seem to fit our issue.  Any suggestions?

All replies (8)

_{Thursday, May 24, 2012 2:36 PM}

Hi,

Please check the following guide.

Hyper-V: VM Connection Keyboard Shortcuts
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/hyper-v-vm-connection-keyboard-shortcuts.aspx

_{Thursday, May 31, 2012 12:45 PM}

None of this helps for my issue, all the keyboard commands are sent to the host, not the guest.  I am still unable to logon to the console.

_{Friday, February 19, 2016 1:50 PM}

I have a similar issue. installed the Windows Updates, restarted and now cannot CTRL ALT DELETE to log in in Hyper-V Console ,RDP or VNC.

_{Tuesday, September 13, 2016 7:35 PM | 1 vote}

Just wait until them update finishes. It will surely start working after the update has completed. Mine took 25 minutes to update.

_{Monday, December 3, 2018 1:59 PM | 1 vote}

Why is the console showing that it's available for login when the update is still processing...shouldn't I see some sort of "Updating, don't turn off your computer" message and a completion percentage?

Solution architect and 30-year veteran of software development

_{Friday, September 6, 2019 6:55 PM}

"Why is the console..."

I agree with this.  This seems extremely unprofessional.  If computer is not responsive, user should, at the very least, have an idea of what's going on.

_{Saturday, December 28, 2019 6:52 AM}

Type Ctrl+alt+end  an admin panel will be open where the password is neccesary u can use any character then symbol then numeric character.

E.g. abcd@123

Have a good day.

_{Saturday, June 20, 2020 3:34 AM}

Thank you.