CTRL-C, CTRL-V never work... | The Coffeehouse

ManipUni
Proving QQ for 5 years!

Has anyone else found a big problem with these hotkeys in Windows? They often seem to get ignored to the point that you have to tap them at least three times just to have a chance of them working.

This isn't on one keyboard or one computer either. I have found the same thing on wired and wireless keyboards.

TommyCarlier
I want my scalps!

Maybe something's wrong with your fingers.

ManipUni
Proving QQ for 5 years!

Perhaps. But other people have the same issue. Maybe there is something wrong with everyone's fingers...

Dr Herbie
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In reply to ManipUni

#Oct 1st @ 3:17 AM

It's a plague! The 'cut-and-paste finger virus' it out of control! Run for the hills! Women, children and software engineers first!

Big Smile

Herbie

zian
Exploding heads since 1988

They're also dependent on the application. If an app uses the common controls, then CTRL+C/CTRL+V generally come along for free but it's possible for an app to make CTRL+C map to something else.

figuerres
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any particular app's when this happens?

I use cut and paste every day generally many times a day and i do not recall any general problem with them...

this includes using them inside remote desktop sessions over a vpn and stuff like that....

now if my input focus is not on the right window then it does not work .... IE can't copy a line from notepad if notepad does not have the focus when i hit the keys.

Dr Herbie
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In reply to figuerres

#Oct 1st @ 4:05 AM

I recently thought the shift key on my wireless keyboard at home was 'sticking' giving caps for more than one letter.

Then I noted that the wired keyboard at work does the same, so it's just my typing has 'drifted' and I haven't noticed. Is your contact on the V or C keys firm?

Herbie

figuerres
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In reply to figuerres

#Oct 1st @ 4:05 AM

just realized that part of my post may not be clear:

"IE can't copy a line from notepad if notepad does not have the focus when i hit the keys."

when i typed "IE" i did not mean to say "Internet Explorer" rather "i.e." or "In example" so thats not a problem with cut/copy/paste

but a comment on the fact that an app has to have focus to get the command.

sorry... it's very early here.

Ray7

It sounds like a problem with your keyboard. Is it wireless? I sometimes get skipped keys when the batteries run low.

Jaz
From the depths of Wales I come

I find that Outlook (2007) is the biggest offender for this. Most other applications work perfectly fine, but copy and pasting using ctrl c and v ussaly ends in failure.

Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

I have this exact same problem on my Vista notebook. I was wondering if it was grime under the keys or something.

lensman

In reply to figuerres

#Oct 1st @ 4:41 AM

You did not say what OS you where using. Vista has security on cut and paste. You cannot cut and paste into elevated permissions from non-eleveated permissions.

Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

In reply to lensman

#Oct 1st @ 10:19 AM

The thing is though, that it does work, but often takes two or three attempts.

fknight

Shouldn't all of these troubleshooting questions have been asked maybe a few years ago when this problem started?

There's no consistency about it. I can highlight text, right click, physically move the mouse pointer down to copy, click on copy. Then move to another application, right click, and either paste is grayed out or if it's not, I hit paste and it pastes what was in the clipboard prior to what I copied in there.

I try it a second time and it works. Before anyone asks, there's nothing wrong with my fingers, keyboard, or mouse.

This is not a new problem, nor is it one being imagined by people, nor is it because people are too lethargic or stupid to know that they clicked copy (or CTRL-C)., It's been going since at least XP, and during that time, the primary culprit was Internet Explorer.

ManipUni
Proving QQ for 5 years!

Skype is a big one.

XML Copy Editor.

Open Office (Calc)

Thunderbird

Firefox

Remote Desktop Connection

It rarely happens in Notepad.