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Rezamn65
Rezamn65

Reputation: 73

Ctrl-C not working in visual studio 2019 when run as administrator

When Visual Studio runs as administrator, Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V shortcut keys are not working...

But when running VS normally - not as administrator - those shortcut keys work fine.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 3990

Answers (3)

Nigrimmist
Nigrimmist

Reputation: 12358

I have some not the same issue, as an author, but i think maybe it is somehow related.

My case is : time to time i can't press CTRL+C in my microsoft visual studio 2022 (community edition) to interupt terminal execution (powershell). For separately opened terminal (outside of Visual Studio) works great, so something wrong with VS.

Only one fix i found is to disable in options->keyboard -> edit.copy hotkey and re-assign it from "Global" to "Text editor". So, it may affect other areas, but works fine in this case. What is the core issue here and how to fix it other way i did not found.

Maybe will be helpfull for anybody.

Upvotes: 3

numdig
numdig

Reputation: 121

I have this behaviour for all text-editor that I use in "Run as Administrator" mode.

The problem comes from a third-party application that uses a global hook (listens to a global hotkey) on those keystrokes (e.g. "Ctrl+C"). In my case it was a personal AutoHotKey/AutoIt3 script that was acting like a copy-paste board. But it could be some other application, or a malware.

If you disable such an application, the keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+C etc. should work fine.

Upvotes: 0

Arsalan Valoojerdi
Arsalan Valoojerdi

Reputation: 1026

In Tools=> Options => Keyboard => Check that Edit.Cut and Edit.Copy is bound to Ctrl+X and Ctrl+C

Or you can reset your settings using Reset button.

Upvotes: 0

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