Cut & Paste not working in Win7

[vultusprime]

I have a new system with Win7 Pro. 64 Bit Sp1.

I've found out that sometimes Win7 has problems with cut & Paste. At first I thought it was a problem with win7 security system but it doesn't seem to be the case as I don't get any message.

When I want to move a file from one location to another, I cut and then go to the destination, click paste and nothing happens. No error message, just nothing. I try again but with the same result result. It seems that others have a similar problem, some have suggested that by Killing RDPCLIP.EXE and restarting it fixes the problem. But I don't have this .EXE in my task list, and some other people suggested some other way.

Some suggested that it could be a memory problem, so I looked at my task manager performance and this is what I have (my PC has 8GB ddr3 ram):

Physical memory

Total 8172
Cached 6219
Available 6264
Free 74

Kernel memory

Paged 353
Nonpaged 100

This problem does not happen all the time but considering that my PC is only 3 days old and I have experienced this problem 3 times already, it seems unacceptable. This is not some small, obscure, rarely used function, this is Cut & Paste, who doesn't use it almost everyday?

I don't know how to fix this problem. Does anyone have any idea?

 

[FishAk]

While I can't answer your question, I would thoroughly test the memory as a first step.

Be careful using cut and paste for files. I got burned a couple times, and now only copy a file to it's new location, then delete the original. Occasionally I will move a file, but only if it is small, and will take a fraction of a second. It's too easy to loose a file by getting rid of it in it's original location before ensuring it's safely in it's new one.

 

[Saithegeek]

Create another account and test that on the new account. If the new account can do it then your windows profile is corrupt.

 

[VexQuake]

I have found that post SP1 sometimes it does not like to catch the cut or copy when the shortcuts are used, if you right click on the file or text and select copy or cut it works every time.

im not sure if there is a tracking bug on it or not but a 3 or 4 second delay isnt killing me yet.

 

[Maverick6969]

I have a new system with Win7 Pro. 64 Bit Sp1.

I've found out that sometimes Win7 has problems with cut & Paste. At first I thought it was a problem with win7 security system but it doesn't seem to be the case as I don't get any message.

When I want to move a file from one location to another, I cut and then go to the destination, click paste and nothing happens. No error message, just nothing. I try again but with the same result result. It seems that others have a similar problem, some have suggested that by Killing RDPCLIP.EXE and restarting it fixes the problem. But I don't have this .EXE in my task list, and some other people suggested some other way.

Some suggested that it could be a memory problem, so I looked at my task manager performance and this is what I have (my PC has 8GB ddr3 ram):

Physical memory

Total 8172
Cached 6219
Available 6264
Free 74

Kernel memory

Paged 353
Nonpaged 100

This problem does not happen all the time but considering that my PC is only 3 days old and I have experienced this problem 3 times already, it seems unacceptable. This is not some small, obscure, rarely used function, this is Cut & Paste, who doesn't use it almost everyday?

I don't know how to fix this problem. Does anyone have any idea?

I've run into this problem before on my main rig and I have not really spent a lot of time on searching for a fix. I figured it's just a Windows 7 "glitch". So when the Ctrl + C (or X depending on your preference) / Ctrl + V doesn't work, I usually go through the Explorer menu.

To do this in Windows Explorer, press the Alt key. Edit menu > Cut or Copy whatever, then Paste.

There is a windows hack to make the menu appear at all times without pressing the Alt key if you're so inclined.

Edit:

The previous suggestion of testing your RAM is sort of useless. Trust me, if you had defective RAM, you would be seeing far more serious problems other than this 'copy/paste' issue. You would either see BSODs, system instability, applications crashing, etc...