All keyboard shortcuts now available in Windows 10 universal apps

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Published onMay 20, 2016

published onMay 20, 2016

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Users reported that certain keyboard shortcuts were unavailable in UWP apps. Now, this issue is fixed thanks to thelatest Windows 10 build. Among the affected shortcuts there were CTRL + C, CTRL + V, and ALT + Space. These are all staple shortcuts, especially forcertain programs.

It seems the problem occurred immediately after upgrading to Windows 10, asusers report:

I’m happy with w10, upgrade from w7. But I having frustrations with copy/paste. It copies a segment from a web site okay but when pasting in an email it doesn’t appear. Is there a clipboard somewhere where I could store it? […]

I am using Edge and Outlook. If I’m on a webpage and wish to copy a paragraph, I highlight it, it turns grey, and I copy. When I go to paste in email I right-click and no drop-down menu. Nothing.

Then other times it works as advertised. Never had this problem with W7.

Help!!!

I have installed Windows 10 on both my Laptop and Desktop machines. On both machines I am not able to use the keyboard shortcut “CTL-V” to paste files in the File Explorer app. The copy, CTL-C, works OK.

Of course, I can “right-click” the destination folder and select the “Paste” option. However, it would be nice to be able to use CTL-V option to save a keystroke.

Speaking of keyboards, many users have reported issues with their on-screen keyboard lately. More precisely, the on-screen keyboard didn’t appear on their device’s screen. There areseveral methods availableto fix this problem: launch the keyboard from the Settings app, add it to the taskbar, or launch the app from the applications list.

Speaking of keyboard improvements, you should also know that theALT + Y issue in UAC UIhas been fixed, as well, in the recent Windows 10 build release.

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All keyboard shortcuts now available in Windows 10 universal apps