Why Does Windows 10/11 Copy and Paste Stop Working After A While?

Anonymous
2023-12-31T13:30:36+00:00

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?

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Performance and system failures

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-09-11T20:41:04+00:00

    For a long time I'd just restart at the end of the day, then I just stopped doing it, waiting for the problem to reoccur. So far it hasn't.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-09-11T20:25:22+00:00

    Did you do anything to fix it, or dis it fix itself?

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-09-11T20:22:45+00:00

    Have you tried running Cafeinated in the background. I am still having issues but this has reduced the reboots to about once per week, if that. For me, also using an Intel 13th, its when I lock the computer or it sits idle for a while that this happens. I have all power savings turned off, no sleep, no hibernate, not even my monitor goes to sleep.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-09-11T20:17:08+00:00

    Don't know if this will help or not, but my issue stopped as quickly as it started. I can leave my system (Windows 11 on an HP Elite Desk) for days at a time and the issue has not returned.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-09-11T19:59:36+00:00

    Hi everyone,

    I’ve been reading through the forum and noticed that I’m experiencing the same issues as many others here. I’ve tried numerous solutions, but unfortunately, nothing has worked so far. The issue seems to occur anywhere between 10 to 60 minutes of use.

    One thing I haven’t seen mentioned much is the CPU. Could this possibly be related to Intel’s 13th-gen processors? I’m running a 13900K, and I’m starting to wonder if there’s a chance this is related to silicon degradation over time (current intel CPU recall and bios fix).

    On the bright side, I’ve had the most success by performing a clean boot through msconfig, disabling all non-Microsoft services. I’ve managed to keep the system running for nearly two hours now without issues. I’ll provide an update soon to let you know if this fix holds up and which software might be causing the problem.

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