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    Sure, Word, Excel and Visual Studio being MS products used to hijack the clipboard. Since Ctrl-X is a cut function this is right in line with what Office Clipboard would directly be involved with. Look on the notification area of the taskbar and see if Office Clipboard isn't active. If it is, right click and choose to configure the options so that it will not intercept native Windows functionality. Commented Jun 14, 2017 at 3:48
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    @user31124 I looked over the notification area, there's no Office Clipboard running, but I think the point some application or service is hijacking the global shortcut you made is highly possible. Is there a way to track down all the shortcuts that any application is using? Commented Jun 14, 2017 at 14:48
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    Office clipboard can present itself only when an MS Office program calls for it, so the problem you noticed of things seeming to be fine at first bootup, but then after a certain program is run it is then when the problem manifests. By bringing up Task Manager, if you're familiar with what tasks normally run you could track it down that way. As far as a program that displays what hooks into the keyboard abstraction layer and reports what global keyboard shortcuts are registered on your computer... probably not but that's a great idea, you should write it! :) Commented Jun 14, 2017 at 18:07