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For the last few months my Copy/Paste will stop working after I've been logged-on for awhile. If I log off and back on (no Restart, though), it will start working again... for awhile, that is. It was happening on Windows 10, so I went ahead and upgraded to Windows 11, hoping it would fix the problem, but it didn't.
I've looked through other postings, but most of them involve a Restart, which certainly works but so does a simple log off/log on. I generally don't log out at the end of the day, just lock it. Does anyone have a solution other than creating a whole new profile?
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Copy paste fails and it happens after some time working in Windows 11. Like a bad array loop finally stalling from poor coding or conflicts in else if. Very frustrating to see how poorly coded and yet MS seeks us to pay more for their broken strings. Please fix it soon or will dual boot OS's with Linux as primary so to get back to W10...
Just a thought from a coding stance:
An unknown character is being attempted and denying the paste
...could this at all be the reason?
I worked with Microsoft level 3 for over 8 months, they really didn't find any fix. I fixed myself by start ing with a copy of Windows 10 that had copy and paste work, then I did a migration from Windows 10 to Windows 11 from a USB drive and it worked.
Also I found that this works:
I had the same problem, this worked for me.
I've placed keystrokes in square brackets to indicate the keyboard touches, and the 'WIN' key refers to the Windows Key on the keyboard. (e.g. [ctrl+alt+del])
Thank you for the information, I have passed on the information to Level 3 because I'm having the exact same issues. The problem appears to be in clipboard and not Office. I'm thinking of upgrading to Windows 11 Pro instead of Home. I continue to work with Level 3 when it fails, and they continue to copy logs from my P/C along with screen videos. I'm not running any 3rd party software, just straight out of the box from Dell. Dell has offered no help except wanting to charge me $90 and no guarantee for a fix.
No. the clipboard worked intermittently, even after stopping and starting it as Admin. I have since installed KB5034467 for 23h2 and restarted and will see how it does. Issue seemed to correspond with having many things running after a while, but not so much as to come close to lack of RAM (128GB installed) or high CPU.
As of today 2/29/2024, still working with Level 3. The P/C was in a broke state with copy/paste not working. Level 3 logged on and dumped several logs for their engineering department to review. They will contact me next week after their review of the logs. Level 3 uninstalled Norton virus protection and was told not to use VPN. The problem still occurred after 3 days of no issues. It might run for days or hours who knows. They need more people to open tickets on the issue because when I asked if anybody else reported the issue, they said no. I'm running Windows 11, Version 23H2 OS Build 22631.3155, along with Microsoft Office Home Student 2021 Version 2402 (Build 17328.20108)
