SAS9.4 freezes/non responding when copying

[Wilson_W]

Hi. Have you found a solution?

I am also having the same issue. My SAS always freezes when I copy something recently. It never happened on Windows 10.

[Peter_Hong]

Hi, unfortunately I have not. I believe Reeza's comment above is the way to go that certain build of the SAS 9.4 is incompatible with Windows 11. What I found is that before running any code copy paste works just fine, not sure if it's the same for you.

[Wilson_W]

Interesting. I didn't realize that. I do have the same situation.

I just tested. It runs fine before running my programs. And it looks like it freezes a longer time after I run it more times of my codes. Maybe the more times it runs, it takes more memory.

[SASKiwi]

@Wilson_W  - Are you running a SAS maintenance level earlier than 9.4 M7? If so then consider upgrading to M7 since you use Windows 11.

[Wilson_W]

I saw earlier comments on this topic that suggests updating SAS to M7, so I did it. But it did not solve the problem. It still freezes when using the copy function.

[SASKiwi]

In that case I suggest you open a track with SAS Tech Support on this then provide an update to this post.

[Peter_Hong]

Update, I found a band-aid solution that clear out the results window then copy paste works just fine.

[Sajid01]

Can you please share your solution so that others in an identical situation can look to it for  guidance?

[Wilson_W]

Thanks for sharing.

[Sajid01]

@Peter_Hong  What is your band aid solution?

[user021]

Have you reported this issue to SAS support and had a ticket created? There is definitely something not working very nicely between SAS and Windows 11. I suspect that Windows 11 introduced something new that caused this freeze/non response of SAS. BTW, I didn't notice this kind of freeze when copying in Office or UEStudio.

[user021]

This happened to me as well. I just installed SAS 9.4 (TS1M7) to Windows 11 and noticed this freeze with SAS after copying anything within SAS.

[SASKiwi]

Apparently SAS 9.4 M8, just released, now officially supports Windows 11. Might be worth upgrading to this to see if the problem persists.

[sasgenie]

I have updated to SAS 9.4 M8. The freezing issue persists when copying text in SAS. It's hard to believe a company with the scale of SAS would have problem solving what appears to be a small bug for such a long time.

[user021]

Has SAS acknowledged this issue? They might not be aware of this if no ticket has been created for it.

I have to downgrade my system to Windows 10 to be free of this annoying issue.