Pasting into Vista cmd.exe broke, why?

Posted by Michel de Ruiter on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Michel de Ruiter
Published on 2011-11-08T10:38:08Z Indexed on 2011/11/14 1:55 UTC
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I use Windows Vista x64 and regularly use the command line window CMD.EXE. I have enabled QuickEdit Mode (and Insert Mode and AutoComplete), to be able to quickly copy and paste text.

Copying (select block, Enter) works fine. Pasting (right click) text also works, as long as it has been copied inside a CMD.EXE window. When I copied the text somewhere else (in an editor, browser or whatever) however, pasting into CMD.EXE does not work! :-(

Using the menu to Edit, Paste does not do anything either, so it's not a mouse thing. I also tried elevating CMD.EXE. I can copy/paste freely between CMD.EXE instances of all sorts: elevated/normal, x64/x86...

I'm sure it did work on this machine until relatively recently. What could have happened? Some Windows Update perhaps?

The problem has been reported by others, but without a solution.

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