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Clipboard History does not recognize the Delete key on Windows 11
I recently moved to Windows 11 (installed from scratch), and as soon as it was ready I activated the Clipboard History with the Win+V shortcut, since I really liked this feature on Windows 10.
But after a short while I noticed the Windows 11 Clipboard History does not recognize the Delete key anymore.
On Windows 10 this works:
- Invoke the Clipboard History with Win+V
- Scroll to the entry you want to delete with your arrow keys
- Hit Delete on your keyboard and that entry will be removed from the history. Clipboard History remains open so you can repeat this for as many entries as you like.
On Windows 11:
- Invoke the Clipboard History with Win+V
- Scroll to the entry you want to delete with your arrow keys
- Hit Delete on your keyboard, then the Clipboard History closes with no error or message. If you invoke the Clipboard History again, the entry is still there.
So apparently there are only two options on Windows 11 now, use the "Clear all" button to remove all the entries from the history. Or click the 3 dots next to each entry you want to remove and then click Delete, which is... annoying if compared to Windows 10.
Is there a way to make the Delete key work again?
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each time I am slowed down and demoralized by this bug I feel like a dvorak typist when qwerty keyboards were introduced.
I know one should never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence, but some part of me does wish that there is at least an intentional decision to not fix this for some evil-but-at-least-not-dumb reason.
Yup, this is an incredibly silly and annoying change.
issue still present in 24H2
one of the few win10 features that actually improved my work is now crippled
another victory for fragile development!I need this feature back asap!!!!!
look, there were enough resources to renew the pagination of these community. But still not to fix an essential function of the os.
Can´T Understand Why Microsoft Is Ignoring This Since A Long Time
13/11/24
delete item from clipboard shortcut still not there=(
- Apparently no one at Microsoft cares about what users want.
! Problem since 18 month !
Wake up please - It's unbelievable what kind of banana software comes out here. Well, let's hope that it's not one of those green bananas that's still woody inside and then goes straight into an overripe, rotten state.
Every day that it takes to fix such a small thing, it gets even more pathetic.
But it's probably that the same key randomly broke on everyone's keyboard and noone noticed before 🙄🤣 - This is the one thing preventing me from upgrading to Windows 11 on remaining Win10 PCs. wwddss has this pretty clearly explained, but I'd add a few additional notes:
- pressing 'delete' after opening the clipboard history on Win11 actually sends 'delete' to the text box you have selected (behind the Clipboard History UI), potentially deleting a character (if you're in the middle of a line)
- manually removing entries on Win11 with the 3dots/trash takes *significantly* longer, as you have to wait between clicks for it to register, otherwise the UI gets confused. So it's 'click... wait... click... wait...' This means trying to remove 20 individual entries used to take ~5s and now takes ~40+s - again, sounds super minor, but when I'm in the flow of doing things, waiting so much longer for a UI that used to work great is super painful.
