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"Sort of a feature," Microsoft on why Ctrl+C fails on Windows 11 due to a design choice

Summary by Windows Latest
Pressing Ctrl+C once and having it fail to copy anything isn’t a bug you imagined. Microsoft’s clipboard history service listens for changes asynchronously, which means a second copy can happen before the system finishes logging the first one. The company calls this design choice intentional. Like most of you, I have the habit of pressing Ctrl and C multiple times just to be sure something copied, and that habit hasn’t gone away even on Windows …
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Windows Latest broke the news on Sunday, August 23, 2026.
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