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You have a folder opened in Windows Explorer at some given path.
You know you're going to have to navigate to that path in an app you have opened, say, to save a file into that folder. So you click on the address bar, highlight all the text, then hit Ctrl-C to copy the path to the clipboard. You know you're not going to need that folder anymore, so you close that instance of Explorer.
You then switch to the app you have opened, hit File, Save As, click on the address bar just before pasting the path you have saved to the clipboard, and with the Ctrl key pressed down with all text in the address bar highlighted, ready to be replaced, you accidentally hit both C and V at almost the same time. Only, Ctrl-C got registered first. So you've just overwritten the "good" path on the clipboard with a path you don't care about, and Ctrl-V confirms that's exactly what you just did.
So now you have to navigate back to that deeply nested path again to save the file to the correct folder. Assuming you know exactly what it was, because you had already closed Explorer...
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Well...TBH this doesn't happen often enough to me to justify $35 USD for some software I'm gonna have to deploy to all the machines I use...especially since Richard below has pointed out that more recent versions of Win10 have a Win-V combination that just might do the trick...
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I have the solution for you:
A modal confirmation message box!
It seems like you are attempting to over-write the clipboard contents. Please confirm to proceed.
OK Cancel
That would be a lot less annoying!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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If you're being serious...then none of the items involved are apps I have the source code for.
And it would be so annoying, I have to think you're NOT being serious...
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Of course I was kidding. But just imagine if Windows did that for every copy paste.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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I'm reminded of a Dilbert comic where every mouse move had to be confirmed. Somehow I can't find it right now. I'm pretty sure I didn't dream it up.
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If you're using a recent version of Windows 10, just hit Win+V instead to see a list of everything you've copied to the clipboard in the current session. 
Depending on your settings - and how much you trust Microsoft! - you might also be able to copy on one PC and paste on another.
Clipboard in Windows 10[^]
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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This does not work on my PC. Maybe something to do with mine being enterprise version? Maybe it's locked down in policies (although I am a local admin on the machine).
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"Windows 10’s October 2018 Update has a new Clipboard experience."
A clipboard experience? 
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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No, we are on 1803...guess that explains it?
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Richard Deeming wrote: Depending on your settings - and how much you trust Microsoft! - you might also be able to copy on one PC and paste on another.
and if you use a remote desktop, you might even share it between different users 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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That's a different "feature", which has been around a lot longer.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I keep forgetting about that one...
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right? whoever decided on paste and copy keys being right next to each other is residing in a special section of hell.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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According to this, it was Larry Tesler who invented it, while working at Xerox PARC. He's still alive, so unless retirement is Hell for him, your wish has yet to come true. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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well i guess i learned something today.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Don’t close the folder. I never close anything.
Sorry for the late reply. For some reason my computer is really slow...
This space for rent.
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That's exactly how I somehow always end up with 25 Explorer windows opened at the same time. And the taskbar preview for them makes it impossible to find anything (another one of my first-world problems)...
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Please post something amusing.
Thank you in advance.
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/ravi
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Quote: Waiting for applications to shut down
Windows Explorer (playing logoff sound)
Don't know if this message is ever accurate, but if it is, I find it rather annoying that shutting down/rebooting Windows can get delayed because it's busy trying to play the logoff sound. Of all things that can go wrong...
Worse: When this happens on a machine that's been configured in Control Panel not to play any of those cutesy noises on various events. Or an RDP session that shouldn't be playing any sound whatsoever.
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dandy72 wrote: this happens on a machine that's been configured in Control Panel not to play any of those cutesy noises on various events.
well the, it's your own fault for changing ms default settings,
at least that's what the folks on technet always say,
and you know they must be right, they've got certs, lots of certs, and gold badges too,
anyway, unlike them I'll be kind and jump right to their eventual answer (save running sfc/scannow and posting logs all over the place.):
format all your drives (connected or not, even those in your safe may be infected) and reinstall windows. and no cheating with dvd's either whatever you need is in the ms clod.
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Don't call him a clod!
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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