Clipboard -> ERROR: Access is denied

I am using a new PC with Vista Ultimate x64. A few moments ago copy and
paste stopped working. The copy part does not indicate any sort of error,
but when I do the paste part I get nothing. I noticed this first with
Notepad but since then have also noticed that I cannot paste into WordPad or
the Firefox address window. After opening the notepad session I did at
least one paste but then a subsequent paste did not work. I made no system
changes of any sort between the last paste that worked and the first one
that didn't work!

In researching this I found no solution but did learn about a Vista utility
named "clip". For some reason I then opened up a command window and tried
"dir | clip" and was surprised to get "ERROR: Access is denied". I couldn't
imagine getting such an error when trying to put something into the
clipboard but I tried the dir by itself and that worked fine. I then tried
"clip /?" and that worked fine too. So then I tried to stuff a small file
into the clipboard by issuing "clip < anything.txt" and once again got the
Access denied message.

So I am now wondering if Vista is trying to tell me that I do not have the
authority to put something into the clipboard? I find that hard to imagine
but I don't know how else to explain the error message I get when actually
trying to put something into the clipboard using the clip utility. And if I
am having a clipboard authority issue that might well explain the problem I
am seeing with Notepad and WordPad.

I don't know if I have one problem here or two, but any help with it/them
would be most appreciated.

Thanks, Bob

I have this rather nasty program which always intercepts cuts and copies to
the clipboard. I don't run it very often so I keep forgetting what it does.

Sorry, Bob

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>I am using a new PC with Vista Ultimate x64. A few moments ago copy and
>paste stopped working. The copy part does not indicate any sort of error,
>but when I do the paste part I get nothing. I noticed this first with
>Notepad but since then have also noticed that I cannot paste into WordPad
>or the Firefox address window. After opening the notepad session I did at
>least one paste but then a subsequent paste did not work. I made no system
>changes of any sort between the last paste that worked and the first one
>that didn't work!
>
> In researching this I found no solution but did learn about a Vista
> utility named "clip". For some reason I then opened up a command window
> and tried "dir | clip" and was surprised to get "ERROR: Access is denied".
> I couldn't imagine getting such an error when trying to put something into
> the clipboard but I tried the dir by itself and that worked fine. I then
> tried "clip /?" and that worked fine too. So then I tried to stuff a
> small file into the clipboard by issuing "clip < anything.txt" and once
> again got the Access denied message.
>
> So I am now wondering if Vista is trying to tell me that I do not have the
> authority to put something into the clipboard? I find that hard to
> imagine but I don't know how else to explain the error message I get when
> actually trying to put something into the clipboard using the clip
> utility. And if I am having a clipboard authority issue that might well
> explain the problem I am seeing with Notepad and WordPad.
>
> I don't know if I have one problem here or two, but any help with it/them
> would be most appreciated.
>
> Thanks, Bob