I wanted to add a follow up to this in case there are other people having the same problem (it basically made any recent build of vim unusable for me on windows).
The problem, in my case, was my anti-virus software (webroot). You need to go into the identity protection settings and specifically allow the application to have access to system data (like the clipboard). -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
