This tutorial will help you in disabling cloud-based clipboard (WIN+V) history feature in Windows 10. Once you follow the steps given in this guide, you’ll be able to prevent or restrict Windows 10 as well as other users from enabling cloud-clipboard feature from Settings and accessing your copied data from cloud-clipboard fly-out.
Newer versions of Windows 10 come with new cloud-based Clipboard feature which allows users to copy and paste multiple items from the clipboard. Users can copy multiple items to the new clipboard and then they can select and paste desired copied items from cloud-clipboard to anywhere they want such as Notepad, MS Word, etc.
The new cloud-based clipboard can be used by pressing WIN+V keys together. To copy items you need to use the good old Ctrl+C hotkey but to paste the copied text from new cloud-based clipboard, you need to use the new WIN+V keyboard shortcut.
When you press WIN+V keys together to access cloud-clipboard, Windows 10 launches the new cloud-based clipboard fly-out as shown in following screenshot:
To paste an item, you need to click on the item and it’ll be immediately pasted at current cursor position in your program window.
Users can enable/disable cloud-clipboard using Windows 10 Settings app. Open Settings app (WIN+I) and go to System -> Clipboard section. Now you can turn on/off Clipboard History option to allow/disallow Windows 10 from copying items to new cloud-clipboard as shown in following screenshot:
We posted a detailed tutorial reviewing cloud-based clipboard feature at following link:
[Tip] How to Configure and Use Cloud-Based Clipboard (WIN+V) Feature in Windows 10
Although it’s a good feature but many Windows 10 users may not like the new cloud-clipboard feature and they may want to disable or deactivate it due to privacy and security reasons.
In this tutorial, we’ll tell you how to permanently disable cloud-clipboard feature in Windows 10 so that no one can access your copied data by pressing WIN+V hotkey.
Once deactivated or disabled, when anyone will try to open Settings -> System -> Clipboard page in your Windows 10 device, he’ll notice that Clipboard History option is grayed out i.e. disabled and he can’t change it. So users will be unable to activate or enable cloud-clipboard feature without your permission. Also a message “Some of these settings are hidden or managed by your organization” will be displayed at the top of the page as shown in following screenshot:
If anyone will try to press WIN+V hotkey in Notepad or any other program to access cloud-clipboard feature, the new clipboard fly-out will open blank or empty. Windows 10 will no longer store your copied items to cloud-clipboard.
Following methods will help you in disabling cloud-clipboard feature in Windows 10 operating system:
METHOD 1: Using Group Policy Editor
1. Press WIN+R keys together to launch RUN dialog box. Now type gpedit.msc and press Enter. It’ll open Group Policy Editor.
2. Now go to:
Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> System -> OS Policies
3. In right-side pane, look for following options:
Allow Clipboard History
Allow Clipboard synchronization across devices
4. Double-click on both options one by one and set both of them to Disabled.
That’s it. It’ll permanently disable cloud-clipboard feature in Windows 10.
PS: In future, if you decide to restore default settings and restore cloud-clipboard feature, set the above mentioned options to Not Configured again in Group Policy Editor.
METHOD 2: Using Registry Editor
If you are using Home edition of Windows, you’ll not be able to run gpedit.msc command because this edition doesn’t come with Group Policy Editor.
If you can’t use or don’t want to use Group Policy Editor, you can take help of Registry Editor for the same task. Just follow these simple steps:
1. Press WIN+R keys together to launch RUN dialog box. Now type regedit and press Enter. It’ll open Registry Editor.
2. Now go to following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System
3. In right-side pane, right-click on empty area and select New -> DWORD (32-bit) Value option. Set the new DWORD name as AllowClipboardHistory and keep its value to 0
Again right-click on empty area and select New -> DWORD (32-bit) Value option. Set the new DWORD name as AllowCrossDeviceClipboard and keep its value to 0
4. Close Registry Editor. You may need to restart your computer to take effects.
That’s it. It’ll completely disable cloud-clipboard feature in Windows 10.
PS: In future, if you decide to restore default settings and restore cloud-clipboard feature, delete the DWORD values created in above mentioned steps from Registry Editor.
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About the author: Vishal Gupta (also known as VG) has been awarded with Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) award. He holds Masters degree in Computer Applications (MCA). He has written several tech articles for popular newspapers and magazines and has also appeared in tech shows on various TV channels.
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