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First off hello to everyone! I can't wait to get some friendly help as I have been racking my brain to figure this one out.

Out of the blue, one day I tried to copy and paste something with ctrl+c and ctrl+v and nothing happened. I have since then figured out that ctrl+c does not work in ANY program yet all other ctrl+* combinations function perfectly. Right click "copy" works and the keyboard is fine.

Not sure where to start on this one so I was hoping someone could lead me in the right direction. I have my computer gui modded with window blinds and iconpackager and I have tweakui as well. I also have all the virus, spyware, adware programs and a hardware firewall, and also hijackthis, so I am 99% sure my comp is clean.

If someone could point me on the right direction I would surely appreciate it. Thanks in advance!

Rick

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Get some text up, or something to copy, select a piece and do ctrl C. Then go Start > RUN, type in clpbrd, ENTER.
A new window will open, the clipboard window. What you selected and copied should be in there.... is it? Come back and say....

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thanks for the reply. unfortunately there is nothing there. to test ctrl+c in many different programs, I have a shorcut to the clipboard on my desktop. I just tried again and there was only the text there from when I right-clicked copy the last time.

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try using the right click to select copy, then use "CTRL+V" to paste it. If this doesn't work then you may have a faulty CTRL key (try the second ctrl key)

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right click copy works fine. and I know I don't have a faulty control key because every other control function works properly. only the ctrl+c function does not work on either control key. stumped.

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...then i do not know. maybe your keyboard.drv file broke a bit. Check that it has not been changed accidentally, maybe download a new one for your particular keyboard. Reset it, anyway... reload it from the list that will be there. Tell us what u find, pls...

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CTRL+C doesn't work. The solution I've found is typically pressing the CTRL key + the windows logo key, or CTRL+SHIFT+SPACE, various combinations of this will re-enable your CTRL+C or CTRL+V abilities. I have no clue what brain child decided to disable them with a keyboard short cut, but thank Microsoft.

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Have you set ctrl-C to be a hot key for some other program? That could disable its normal function.

Have you used some program to disable part of another program? That could also use a trick that disables certain keys.

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