This article describes steps one can take to enable or disable copy and paste to and from the Microsoft Defender Application Guard for the Microsoft Edge browser in Windows 11.
Microsoft Defender Application Guard works with Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Office app, and browser to help isolate untrusted sites and prevents untrusted Word, PowerPoint, and Excel files from accessing trusted resources.
When you install and enable the Microsoft Defender Application Guard for Edge, certain actions such as camera and microphone, and print files are disabled. For example, copying and pasting to and from the Application Guard for Edge windows is disabled. You must turn on these settings to be able to copy and paste within the Edge Application Guard window.
Below is how to enable or disable copy and paste to and from the Microsoft Defender Application Guard with Microsoft Edge browser in Windows 11.
Turn on or off a copy and paste in Microsoft Edge browser with Defender Application Guard
As described above, when you install and enable Microsoft Defender Application Guard for Edge, certain actions are disabled. For example, copying and pasting to and from the Edge Application Guard windows is disabled.
Below is how to turn on or off a copy and paste to and from the Application Guard with the Microsoft Edge browser.
First, you need to install and enable Microsoft Defender Application Guard for the Microsoft Edge browser. If you haven’t already, read the post below to do so.
How to install and enable Microsoft Defender Application Guarde for Edge browser
After installing, open the Windows Security app.
You can do that by clicking on the Start menu button and searching for “Windows Security“. Under best match, select the Windows Security app to open.
When the Windows Security app opens, click the App & browser control section.
On the App & browser control settings page of the Windows Security app, under Isolated browsing, click the link “Change Application Guard settings“.
On the next window, under Copy and paste, toggle the button to the On position to enable copy and paste to and from Application Guard for Microsoft Edge.
To disable it, simply toggle the button back to the Off position.
You must restart your computer for the changes to apply.
Enable or disable copy and paste in Application Guard via the Windows Registry Editor
If you can’t open the Local Group Policy Editor, you can use the Windows Registry editor instead.
Open the Windows Registry, and navigate to the folder key path as listed below.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Hvsi
If you don’t see the Hvsi folder key, right-click on the Microsoft key, then create the subkey (Hvsi) folders.
On the right pane of the Hvsi folder key, right-click and select New -> DWORD (32-bit) Value. Type a new key named EnableClipboard.
Double-click the new value name (EnableClipboard) and enter the Value data of 1 to enable copy and paste from and to Application Guard for Edge.
A Value data of 0 to disable copy and paste from and to Application Guard for Edge.
Restart your computer for the changes to apply.
Once installed, to use Microsoft Edge in isolated mode with Application Guard, press the keyboard shortcut (CTRL + SHIFT + Q).
You can also click on the Edge browser menu (3 vertical dots) and select New Application Guard windows (CTRL + SHIFT + A).
That should do it!
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