Cannot Enable Clipboard History in Windows 10 Pro


  1. JimKirk
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    Windows 10 Professional
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    Cannot Enable Clipboard History in Windows 10 Pro


    Here is what is going on. Today I went to check out clipboard history using windows key + V and nothing happened. It didn't give me the popup saying it wasn't on, nor did it show me the history I had.

    I went to Start > Settings > System and Clipboard was missing from the choices available.

    I checked in gpedit.msc under Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > OS Policies. There was no Allow clipboard history option.

    I tried to use the reg file from Enable or Disable Clipboard History in Windows 10 and even checked the reg key (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System) to make sure that there was no AllowClipboardHistory with a 0 setting.

    Any help would be great did I perhaps miss something and they went ahead and removed the feature since they had initiated it?


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  3. bro67
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    See Brink’s other tutorial. Turn On or Off Clipboard Sync Across Devices in Windows 10.
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  4. Brink
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    Hello Jim,

    In addition to what bro posted above, what build of Windows 10 do you currently have installed?

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    Clipboard History will only be available starting with build 17666.
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  6. JimKirk
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    Good call I only have 17134. I tried checking for updates but it seems there is nothing there as it says I am up to date. How can I update to 17666?
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  7. Brink
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    JimKirk said:
    Good call I only have 17134. I tried checking for updates but it seems there is nothing there as it says I am up to date. How can I update to 17666?
    If you like, you could try using the Windows 10 Update Assistant to update to the latest version of Windows 10.

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