IntelliJ IDEA 14 Copy and Paste not working with other applications

Question

Couldn't find the simple solution on SO, so thought I would add this here for anyone looking in the future.

My symptom was that I could copy and paste within the IJ editor, but not from the editor to another application or from another app to the editor.

This was on Windows 10 with IntelliJ IDEA 14.1.6.

Answer 1

My solution (thanks to a similar issue reported with Android Studio) was to run IntelliJ as an admin.

Steps to always run IntelliJ in admin mode:

1. Right-click on IntelliJ icon in start menu search (or wherever you started it) -> Open file location
2. Right-click IntelliJ shortcut -> Open file location (yes, again to get to the .exe, not the shortcut.)
3. Right-click idea.exe -> Properties
4. Compatibility tab -> check Run this program as an Administrator
5. Right-click idea64.exe -> Properties (if you run IntelliJ in 64 bit mode)
6. Compatibility tab -> check Run this program as an Administrator