Help! Cannot Do Any Cut/copy/paste

Yesterday, I found that the CUT/COPY/PASTE in the right click menu are all disabled.I opened a word document, then create another new word document.Ctrl+A select all in the source doc and COPY it. Yes COPY works in source document.However, when I wanted to PASTE it into the new WORD document, the CUT/COPY/PASTE in the right click menu are all disabled (grey color).Now I cannot do any CUT/COPY/PASTE...>_<This happen not only in WORD document, but also other type of document such TXT.I tried to find the answer in Microsoft websitem. But cannot find anything relates to this proplem.What does cause this proplem?? how can I solve it??Thank you!!!

What OS are you using? Different versions of Windows have different clipboard controls.

Did you get a Illegal Function Call of some similar error saying svchost has crashed - right before this ? I used to face similar problems when my svchost would crash and cut-copy-paste would go away till I rebooted. Now, is your problem permanent or is fixed upon a consecutive reboot ? If it gets fixed on reboot, then surely it's a problem with svchost.Try finding all the security patches relating to svchost and apply them. I have no idea which one fixes it - but the problem went away only after I applied all the patches.

how much memory do you have in your PC ? have you ever tryied to do it in other programs ?

It's a virus. check with latest updated antivirus software - I recommend kaspersky. I had same problem loong time ago, and after a while I discovered that it's a some stupid virus...

Did you get a Illegal Function Call of some similar error saying svchost has crashed - right before this ? I used to face similar problems when my svchost would crash and cut-copy-paste would go away till I rebooted. Now, is your problem permanent or is fixed upon a consecutive reboot ? If it gets fixed on reboot, then surely it's a problem with svchost.

 

Try finding all the security patches relating to svchost and apply them. I have no idea which one fixes it - but the problem went away only after I applied all the patches.

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Problem disappeared after I reboot Windows.

However, I couldn't remember if I got a Illegal Function Call error or not...

After this, I use symentec Antivirus to do a whole system scan, but no virus are found.

Yup... then its 100% your svchost.exe giving out problems... Funny thing is this used to happen a whole lot to me during one long spell.... It stopped for a while after I installed all the patches.. and then started again. But give it around 2-3 weeks, and it'll go away (ghostly)... lol.. it comes back now, only when I run a whole bunch of applications together and windows generates a page fault. Otherwise its stays all calm and cool.