Copy and Paste Feature Not Working in Windows 8

Anonymous
2012-12-22T08:58:46+00:00

Hi,

This is probably the wrong forum to post this question in. But I am running a Windows 8 Pro 64bit machine, and I am experiencing problems with the Copy, Cut and Paste feature in windows explorer, where I try to copy a directory or file from one location to another but it does not work. I do have permission rights. Is this a bug in the operating system?

Peter

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-05-28T18:39:35+00:00

    Running "rdpclip.exe" did fix my copy/paste problem. Thanks!

    I'll wait and see if the problem comes back, to decide if I'll need to add it to my startup folder.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-08-26T16:57:06+00:00

    I have been so frustrated with the cut and paste problem I am tempted to buy an old computer with windows 7.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-09-29T03:16:45+00:00

    I have windows 8 but I  installed Windows 8.1 . Tried what you said but when I clk on change PC settings , General is not in the list

    Is it because I have 8.1 ?

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-12-14T18:54:13+00:00

    Method 1: sfc /scannow "did not find any integrity violations".

    Method 2: is crazy and not acceptable - because of "Note". Who in a normal mind would do something like that to uninstall all programs that are already installed from DVDs etc. A lot of wasted time / reinstalling.

    Copy/paste still does not work !

    (i.e. in the beginning it works, and then after awhile it stops working. Rebooting PC when you need to copy/paste something is very counter-productive)

    Copy/paste is the basic necessity. Microsoft must really priorities fixing that bug.

    Windows 8 with all fancy stuff and without basic copy/paste - there are other OS on a market.

    Quite unexpected outcome - returning whole new computer because MS cannot fix basic copy/paste bug.

    (and provider does not allow to change back to more stable previous win7 version).

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-01-11T03:12:47+00:00

    I'm having issues with something sort of similar.  It's more than just copy and paste though.  When I right click to try and highlight an area I want to bold, italic, underline, copy, delete, etc... the highlighted portion keeps jumping around the words and won't stay on the area I am trying to change.  It takes me about 10 tries before it finally works. VERY annoying.  This thread is the closest thing I have found to my problem. 

    I tried Method 1 above and got this message:

    Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them.  Details are included in the CBS.log winder\Logs\CBS\CBS/log.  Not that logging is currently not supported in offline servicing scenarios.

    What should I do now?  Some guidance would be greatly appreciated as this problem is really costing me a lot of precious time, not to mention aggravation!

    Thanks!

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