Why has my clipboard stopped working?

Raymond Chen June 4, 2008 Jun 4, 2008 06/4/08

You may be minding your own business and discover that your clipboard has stopped working. You try to copy something to the clipboard, and it's not there. You try to paste something from the clipboard, and nothing comes out. What's going on? The clipboard is a shared resource. (More specifically, shared among programs that run on the same ...