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Disabling the Clipboard User Service causes Calculator to crash when copying values or pressing CTRL+C #2169

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justcallhimdragon opened this issue May 3, 2024 · 1 comment

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justcallhimdragon commented May 3, 2024

Describe the bug
Attempting to copy a value from Calculator crashes the application if the Clipboard User Service is disabled.

Steps To Reproduce

  1. Disable Clipboard User Service using the attached script generated by privacy.sexy and reboot.
    2024-05-04_03-26-33-privacy-script.zip
  2. Open Calculator in Standard view.
  3. Press CTRL+C or right click a value and choose Copy.

Expected behavior
Value is copied to the clipboard.

Actual behavior
Calculator crashes.

Workaround

  1. Enable the Clipboard User Service (cbdhsvc) using the attached script generated by privacy.sexy and reboot.
    2024-05-04_03-33-20-privacy-script.zip

Device and Application Information

  • OS Build: 10.0.22631.0
  • Architecture: X64
  • Application Version: 11.2401.0.0
  • Region: en-US
  • Dev Version Installed: False

Additional context
As per privacy.sexy:

Microsoft acknowledges that disabling this service does not adversely affect the system's core functionality (link).
Disabling this service enhances your security by reducing your system's vulnerability surface. This service has been historically susceptible to vulnerabilities such as Privilege Escalation vulnerability (link).
Turning off cbdhsvc also helps improve system performance by reducing the number of background processes as cbdhsvc runs automatically in the background (link).
Additionally, it enhances privacy by preventing the storage and sharing of clipboard history with Microsoft servers. Clipboard data often contains sensitive information, including passwords and credit card numbers (link).

Requested Assignment
If possible, I would like to fix this.

@justcallhimdragon justcallhimdragon changed the title Disabling the Clipboard User Service causes Calculator to close when copying values or pressing CTRL+C Disabling the Clipboard User Service causes Calculator to crash when copying values or pressing CTRL+C May 4, 2024
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sebadamus commented Nov 5, 2024

Hi, I came up with the same problem, and some more... if that privacy setting is applied you wont be able to paste inside Whatsapp. For i.e. a user with whatsapp installed from Windows Store, just wont paste any text inside Whatsapp chat.

If yo apply the revert script, and reboot, it start working again.

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