Has antivirus companies adding scanning to clipboard content and actions. You can uninstall that for a short test and then reinstall your antivirus after.
Good luck!
Bob
Running Windows 7 32bit with 4GB of RAM with Office 2007. In the last couple weeks my clipboard action in Outlook is very slow. Running Exchange 2007 and Outlook is in cached mode. After I right click-copy some text it can take 5-10 seconds of the spinning circle to save and about the same to paste. I've tried to repair the install, run the Office diagnostics and disabled all add-ins. Any ideas....this is driving me crazy. Thanks.

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