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?

[glc]

Please describe the exact procedure you are using to "cut and paste". There are quite a few different ways to do it, have you tried alternate methods?

[vultusprime]

Originally Posted by glc Please describe the exact procedure you are using to "cut and paste". There are quite a few different ways to do it, have you tried alternate methods?

right click - cut

right click - paste

like I've done for the past 13 years.

[MikeMoss]

Hi

The next time you run into the problem try using the take ownership application on the files that won't cut and paste and see if that makes a difference.

Add "Take Ownership" to Explorer Right-Click Menu in Win 7 or Vista - How-To Geek

This could be related to permissions somehow.

Mike