I've got a user that upgraded from XP to Win 7. She's had some issues with the upgrade that we've almost worked our way through, but one has stumped me. She can't cut and paste. The options are there in the context menu, but they don't seem to do anything.

I searched MSDN and didn't find anything. Has anyone else encountered this particular problem? Any ideas??

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This may be better on superuser.com – Vincent Ramdhanie Nov 10 '09 at 18:20
This question isn't related to programming, it belongs on superuser.com. – Dominic Rodger Nov 10 '09 at 18:20
Language-agnostic tag should be removed. – Maxim Zaslavsky Dec 27 '09 at 18:17
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Check this out, I figured it may be due to bad Context Menu handlers:

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Could you give us some details of the scope of the problem.

1) Only in notepad. Only in a browswer. What about the old ctrl c, ctrl v?

2) What about other users? Is this user an administrator, can they be made an administrator temporarily.

3) Anything in the Windows logs? Security, Software. Turn on Security logging?

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If you are copying and pasting from different formats you may be running into a problem. Facing the same issue I just discovered that "paste special" offered options for pasting text that included text only and html. I had copied a sentence from a web page (HTML) and was attempting to paste into Outlook (RTF format). No dice. All was forgiven by electing "paste special"| text.

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