Windows 10 has a clipboard history which can be accessed using WIN+V it has a recent history of all your copy and paste. When using this in VIM and trying to paste from it doesn't work it acts like nothing happens. Wondering if there's a way to make it usable in VIM. The alternative is opening up a notepad and just windows copying from there which is just extra steps.
It looks like selecting something from that window leads to Windows doing Ctrl+V in an attempt to paste. That, of course, doesn't mean the same thing in Vim. However, if you have things properly set up to catch clipboard text in register * (see :h 'clipboard') then all you'd need to do after clicking an item in the window is hit p in Vim. (If that doesn't work see if "*p does.)
I just tried it and p does work for me.
(There are ways to make Ctrl-V do a put in Vim but that's a bit more obtrusive.)
Update: I was playing around a bit with this and it appears to be a little smarter than just Ctrl-V pasting everywhere. For instance, in my mintty terminal that I use for Cygwin it successfully pastes but it can't be using Ctrl-V as that does nothing. I do have both Shift+Ins and Ctrl+Shift+V set up to act like Ctrl-V, though, and it seems that it detected one of these.
A, a, I, i, O, o, R, S, s; then pastes the remainder.) When I try to do it in WSL - Ubuntu and WSL - OpenSUSE (in Insert Mode or in Normal Mode), Vim enters Visual Block Mode. In GVim 8.2, in Insert Mode⊞vprints a caret^, and in Normal Mode it enters Visual Block Mode, allowing me to select a rectangular block of text. Curious. – m_mlvx Jan 25 at 1:18⊞v) should have no effect except to open the clipboard history window. Windows intercepts Win-V before it reaches a window. It's when you click on a row in the history window that some keystroke is sent to the window from which you entered Win-V. And that keystroke is as I describe in my answer: Ctrl-V or similar. That one can have the kind of effects you describe. Are you sure you have this feature enabled? – B Layer Jan 26 at 11:02ctrl-v(back then) invoked the clipboard history, and I hated getting lots of irrelevant options (instead of what was most recently in the clipboard). But, I had to turn it on to try it and get the results I described above. Win10 helpfully pops up a message about enabling it, if you press ⊞v with clipboard history disabled. Now that it's on, I'll probably keep it enabled. – m_mlvx Jan 26 at 16:47