What are common reasons for copy-paste intermittently breaking inside Windows 2008 R2?
Scenario 1:
- You copy some text (keyboard shortcuts or menu click with mouse).
- When you go to paste it, whatever you previously had on your clipboard is still there.
Scenario 2:
- You copy some text (keyboard shortcuts or menu click with mouse).
- When you go to paste it, nothing is pasted.
Scenario 3:
- You copy some text (keyboard shortcuts or menu click with mouse).
- When you go to paste it, a single line break is pasted.
Other apps in use:
- Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, TweetDeck, Google Talk, Skype, iTunes, notepad++
- In the past, when doing programming with Eclipse, I had Scenario 1 happen all the time.
- Today, inside Visual Studio 2010, I mostly get Scenario 3.
What I'm currently doing to work around this issue
- Copying about a dozen times (ctrl-c) then pasting. If fails, repeat until it works.