Just try closing any video players (VLC or whatever you might have playing). Either way, this simple check should be something you do first. This can disable the copy and paste functions and while you may be unlikely to be copying and pasting away while watching a video it’s possible you might be watching something in a window while working, or have left the video paused in the background. Sometimes however it may become locked by certain DRM (Digital Rights Management) such as if you are playing an encrypted video. The Windows clipboard is generally accessible to all programs that you might have installed. There is also another annoying possibility that you copy something and it seems to be fine but when you come to paste it pastes the wrong thing! Usually, something you had copied to the clipboard earlier.
Not the end of the world but definitely a large amount of annoying. Had I used the right-click context menu I would have noticed that the Copy command was greyed out and been alerted to the issue, but with no visual indicator to my CTRL-C command, I was left to backtrack and repeat my actions. I didn’t even know there was a problem until I had a problem. I have done things before where I have copied something I needed for later from a webpage with CTRL-C, carried on reading and browsing, changed pages, and then gone to CTRL-V to a document only to get absolutely nothing. The worst is, you may not actually notice it isn’t working until you come to paste it from your clipboard. The Copy / Paste error in Windows is one you think should have really been patched out by now, but in truth, it can actually be caused by a number of different things, so it may not be as simple to eradicate as it sounds. You probably already know that the shortcut for them is CTRL-C (copy) and CTRL-V (paste), but equally, you might have also noticed that occasionally, for no obvious reason, Copy and Paste stop working, at least until you reboot your machine, then they seem to magically work again and you forget all about it until the next time it fails for you. If you do any amount of, well anything, on your PC then you probably use Copy and Paste to speed things up every now and then.
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