Craptastic!

I'm working hard (no really, I am) on a project which will provide a new expense forecasting model for my department. It's going well - I've just shown my manager my last two weeks work on it and he's pleased enough. We've discussed some tweaks and changes and I'm primed and ready to get them in; hand scrawled paper notes and all... Start writing some SQL, move to Excel to grab some data, then jus... BAM! "Cannot clear clipboard". WTF? I only need four rows of data. Ok, I'll just go back to the code and move a few pieces arou... Hang on, ctrl-x isn't working... Nor ctrl-c... Why is Cut, Copy and Paste disabled on my edit menu?? Ok, well I'll just save everything as is, reboot (a pain in itself since this shitty company-laptop takes 15 mins to boot) then come back and pic... FFS now File, Save isn't working... In ANYTHING. Start Menu has just given up... Oh fuck it. *holds down power button and loses an hours work*

You don't get this shit on a Mac (I've transcended to "fanboi").