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Hello, everyone!

I have started using Vbox like 2 months and still can`t handle with one my problem. I have a spontaneous click "Ctrl+C" when I just move some windows. How I check that my problem still exists, e.g:

1. Start "CMD" => Default line "C:\Users\Administartor>" appears => Click "Ctrl+C" => new line appears like previous.
2. Move "CMD" window => new line appears like previous, but I don`t understand why it happens...

That problem really interferes me when I work with different programs and I need to move or resize some windows because spontaneous combination "Ctrl+C" closes my program.
Also this problem is OS independent, it could be Win7, Win10, WinServer, This is really a global problem for my Vbox.
Could someone give me some tips on how I can solve my problem?

It`s a result when I moved and resized CMD window:

FrankensteinAssistant wrote:I have a spontaneous click "Ctrl+C" when I just move some windows.

You realize that what you're describing is kind of hard for your average user to understand as a concept, right? Moving a window sends a keystroke... something doesn't compute here.

Do you have any software active on your Host, like mouse-keys, keyboard assistants, accessibility software, other?

I want to see the recipe of the VM, the ".vbox" file. Right-click on the VM in the VirtualBox Manager, select "Show in Explorer". ZIP the selected ".vbox" file and attach it to your response.

I have the usual OS windows without additional programs you mentioned.
Zip file with file *.vbox is attached.

<HardDisk uuid="{bf8e1857-fe6f-4322-81e7-a9f8f7d67255}" location="WIN7ETx86L1V04-disk1.vmdk" format="VMDK" type="Normal"/>

Where did you get this VM from? Are you seeing the same behavior on other VMs? If you don't have other VMs, download a Linux distribution and create a new VM to test-drive it. For example https://linuxmint.com/download.php

In particular, I took it from a colleague, perhaps this is not a good example.
But I have another virtual machine that I created myself:

Unfortunately, I have the same problem on all my VMs...

FrankensteinAssistant wrote:Unfortunately, I have the same problem on all my VMs...

I need you to try the LiveDVD that I suggested. So that I know that we're starting from a clean slate. Both of these .vbox files are with VMDK hard disks, not the default VDI, which means something is not as pristine as I'd like it to be. Plus the Guest Additions are too old on both of these.

So, download the Mint19 DVD, and I need to see a complete log. Follow a "start the VM from cold-boot" / "observe or recreate the problem" / "shutdown the VM" cycle. With the VM completely shut down (not paused or saved), right-click on the VM in the VirtualBox Manager and select "Show Log". Save only the first "VBox.log", ZIP it and attach it to your response.

Hi, sorry that I did not reply for a while.
I`ve solved my problem and found a program that caused me pain.
It was a "QTranslate" tool on my host machine. It pressed "Ctrl + C" every time I selected text or did any window manipulation.
I turned it off and the problem disappeared.

Thank you for trying to help me, good luck!

FrankensteinAssistant wrote:It was a "QTranslate" tool on my host machine. It pressed "Ctrl + C" every time I selected text or did any window manipulation.

That's interesting... I've used/I'm using the QT translate tool (I use it to translate VirtualBox in Greek) and I've never seen it interfere!

Thank you for the feedback and the solution, hope someone finds it useful in the future. Marking as [Solved].

I’ll make a small clarification, I use QTranslate version 6.7.3 and in this version there is an option "Mouse mode". If I enable it, the problem will appear.

I'm sorry... is that a tray icon menu? A constantly-running app on your system? A TSR one (older folks will get it)...

Yeah, those are expected to modify your computer's behavior. That why they're there, running all the time. I use Qt Translator on an OSX host, I don't have things like this, thankfully...