Hi,
I asked if it was in more as one program as some part of the office suite might try to use hardware graphics acceleration, as far as I know, wordpad would not fall in that category.
Similar laggy behavior makes me think of DNS issues, eg.. first DNS server times out and then the 2nd one gives the correct answer.
But... why on earth would a clipboard copy need a DNS server or internet connection at all?
Yes I read about all the 'Windows 10 sends everything to MS' stuff and some of those reports are worrying.
Yes I seriously doubt it is related to your problem.
As I have no other ideas at the top of my head, could you attach a vmware.log file from the trouble VM here?
Maybe that sheds a light on this case.
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Wil