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Enabling clipboard history in windows 10

I am runnings Windows 10 Home with the latest updates.

I have done the following.

Tried to change the clipboard history enabled in settings, but it's switched off and greyed out and the message "some of these settings are managed by your organization" is displayed.

Since this is the Home Edition it does not come with group policy editor installed (gpedit.msc) so I had to download and install it.

There are several videos on Youtube showing ways of removing the message and allowing changes. None of them work.

I do finally find "Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > OS Policies > Allow clipboard History" and enable it. But still no clipboard history, although Settings now shows it is supposed to be enabled, albeit greyed out and the message is still there. And Clipboard History (Win-V) still doesn't work.

Any ideas how to remove the annoying message and get clipboard history working?

Solution

  • I finally found a partial solution using Regedit. Go to

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Clipboard

    and change

    EnableClipboardHistory

    to 1.

    This, on it's own, still does not work, but going to

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System\

    and changing

    AllowClipboardHistory

    to 1 finally enables Win-V and in Clipboard Settings the switch is no longer greyed out and can be operated.

    The "some of these settings are managed by your organization" is still displayed, but enough for today, I've achieved 80% of what I wanted.

    Much later
    I finally found a Google article about Chrome browser being "managed by your organisation" when it is on your own private PC. It gives several different versions of instructions on how to remove this setting. It can be found here

    Caveats
    It talks about having a Google administrators account for one method. Not a lot of use for a single home PC. Your ordinary google login won't work.

    In the Windows method there are a scary number of Registry entries to remove. Most delete OK, but one or two refuse to be deleted or don't exist. There is also a file to delete, but for me, that didn't exist either. However I deleted as many as I could and Chrome doesn't appear to be "managed" any more after a restart. Early days.