Hi. I am currently running Windows 8.1 pro and have encountered a maddening copy/paste issue. I can copy just fine from anywhere, I can paste just fie using Office 2013, notepad, notepad++, powershell, web browsers, etc. The problem comes up when I need to paste into a dialog box within an app. For example, enter license code dialog boxes (when you really want your clipboard to work!). Find/replace dialog boxes within Office/notepad++ are also fine. I mainly see it with license entry. I even had trouble with a license entry box that had an integrated "Paste from Clipboard" button, so it's not a problem with control-v.

I attempted to use a 3rd party clipboard app (Clipboard Help and Spell - don't know if it's a true replacement or just extender), but I couldn't even get it to copy. Tried licensing it with the free license key supplied, but of course I couldn't paste the 692-character code into the box!

I searched for this problem on Google and Bing, and the fixes I found weren't relevant to my problem.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Create another user account with administrative privileges and recheck the issue.

Thanks for your swift reply.

The issue is resolved, but I don't know why. Here's what I did.

1. As per your advice, I created a new (local) admin account. Problem persisted.
2. I tried to log in as a domain admin (this PC is part of a Server 2008r2 Domain), but got the trust between this workstation and domain has failed message.
3. I logged in with my MS account and removed the PC from the domain. Rebooted. Problem was gone.
4. Rejoined PC to domain, problem still gone.

Was it just the reboot, or was the domain trust problem at the root of the problem? I don't know - do you?

Thanks for your swift reply.

The issue is resolved, but I don't know why. Here's what I did.

1. As per your advice, I created a new (local) admin account. Problem persisted.
2. I tried to log in as a domain admin (this PC is part of a Server 2008r2 Domain), but got the trust between this workstation and domain has failed message.
3. I logged in with my MS account and removed the PC from the domain. Rebooted. Problem was gone.
4. Rejoined PC to domain, problem still gone.

Was it just the reboot, or was the domain trust problem at the root of the problem? I don't know - do you?

• Marked as answer by Kate LiMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator 1 hour 26 minutes ago

Thanks for your swift reply.

The issue is resolved, but I don't know why. Here's what I did.

1. As per your advice, I created a new (local) admin account. Problem persisted.
2. I tried to log in as a domain admin (this PC is part of a Server 2008r2 Domain), but got the trust between this workstation and domain has failed message.
3. I logged in with my MS account and removed the PC from the domain. Rebooted. Problem was gone.
4. Rejoined PC to domain, problem still gone.

Was it just the reboot, or was the domain trust problem at the root of the problem? I don't know - do you?

• Marked as answer by Kate LiMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator Wednesday, July 15, 2015 5:57 AM

Hi,

No sure what's the root cause.

But if the issue just happen on Domain account, rejoing domain may sometimes fix domain profile related issue.

Once this issue happened again, we can try to use Process Monitor to capture the system events during reproing this issue and find any clue which may cause this issue.

Thanks for your efforst and sharing on this i