Clipboard problems (can not copy/paste) in Windows 11

Glen, I read through this, and I'm interested in your fix. Can you explain in simple terms what exactly what to do to disable the tasks you mention. If this work I would like to pass it on to Level 3 and the engineers.

Thank you for your post.

This post made me smile!

Thank you and i will look into applying these updates.

There is nothing wrong with VB. i still code it in now even though i first started 30 years ago. if it does the job keep using it :D

This update is great. i will give it a go next time i have the issue.

Thank you, after months of working with Microsoft I offered to pack up my P/C and send it to India if they couldn't recreate the problem in the lab. My P/C has been totally rebuilt at least 6 times with a format of the hard drive and the problem was still there. I'll keep you posted with any updates. I think now since they have an open ticket, they can't close it until it's fixed.

First, as you all know, everyone was right, it was not the Windows Clip history; I found out not long after the post... Sorry, I'll removed the 'SOLVED's.

I didn't stop searching there, I couldn't. It was too troublesome to my day. I believe I have actually found the culprit, apologies for not posting earlier. It has been a week now since I've had to reboot (fingers crossed).

The problem seemed to be getting worse for me. I would constantly receive messages from Excel saying that 'Something is using the clipboard. Content can only be pasted within Excel'... not very useful.

I started digging into the Event Viewer to see if I could catch it. I chased each error by the CLSID in ROOT to the find the AppID it was calling on, and everytime, it was the same:

CLSID - {F94358B1-E9AE-4D5C-AF66-CE50E67803C7} 

AppID - {5E176815-9A63-4A69-810F-62E90D36612A} 

This app, the 'Connected Devices Platform Service' will connect everytime you start and create a new instance of itelf as part of the 'Per-User Services'... it assigns random string at the end of the service name (e.g. Connected Devices Platform User Service_b82c9). Something is wrong with it.

Immediately upon looking deeper at the service and the running tasks, details, etc... it was clear it was stuck in a re-starting mode, but wasn't doing anything. This service is used by Windows to manage connected devices and facilitate interactions between different applications and services on a network. That means pairing and communicating with smartphones, IoT devices, etc. This explains (in my case) why my Bluetooth mouse required I resort back to dongle and why the Windows Phone Link failed the moment Win 11 was introduced.

For me, this functionality wasn't as important as my clipboard, so I went into the details and changed its startup mode to disabled and rebooted. I still needed to disable the NVIDIA drivers for a clean re-boot, but I believe that's an epic battle between NVIDIA and Intel (630 UHD?).

Anyway, no more issues. It was happening to me most while in Visual Studio, or at least most noticeably, so I always attributed to VS and never joined the two; that was my first mistake. I didn't consider ALL of the ways I interact with VS, and now that I know more, I understand... I think.

I have a Logitech M720 Bluetooth. The roller has additional buttons (pushing the mouse left and right vs only down). The logitech software has the capacity to re-map the buttons on the mouse to be any keyboard combo you'd like. Given most of my time going to VS/VB6 (<= I know, I know), mine are mapped to F10/F11(F8/Shift+F8), or step-into and step-over. Apparently, this tool uses CDPService. Everytime I used it, I'd activate it, making the chances higher and higher for fail. Now that I've disabled the service, I've lost the handy little, 'step-over-with-mouse' feature, but I can copy from notepad to Excel...

I commend you for persevering!

Good luck dude.