Get screen shot instead of "copy"

[Joshua Kugler]

Hi.

In relation to my problem, I found this post:

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...support/browse_thread/thread/2d5bf202aded1973

But no solution.

Here is what happens. I highlight some text to copy. I can:

1) Hit Ctrl-C
2) Hit Ctrl-X
3) Right click and select Copy or Cut.

But, when I go to paste, I get a screen shot. If I am pasting into a text
field, nothing shows up, and then I paste into something like Word, I see
that it pastes an image (the screen shot).

This happens with no discernable pattern or obvious cause.

If it matters, this happened on a new Dell machine, Windows XP SP2, all
patches up to date.

Has anyone found a solution to this?

Thanks!

j

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Joshua,

To know if the clipboard is locked by a third-party software, try this:

Click Start, Run and type CLIPBRD
Copy sample text from a document and see if the text is shown in the
clipboard viewer.

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Hi.

In relation to my problem, I found this post:

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...support/browse_thread/thread/2d5bf202aded1973

But no solution.

Here is what happens. I highlight some text to copy. I can:

1) Hit Ctrl-C
2) Hit Ctrl-X
3) Right click and select Copy or Cut.

But, when I go to paste, I get a screen shot. If I am pasting into a text
field, nothing shows up, and then I paste into something like Word, I see
that it pastes an image (the screen shot).

This happens with no discernable pattern or obvious cause.

If it matters, this happened on a new Dell machine, Windows XP SP2, all
patches up to date.

Has anyone found a solution to this?

Thanks!

j

 

[Joshua Kugler]

Joshua,

To know if the clipboard is locked by a third-party software, try this:

Click Start, Run and type CLIPBRD
Copy sample text from a document and see if the text is shown in the
clipboard viewer.

Sometimes the text shows in the clipboard, but sometimes when I pressed
ctrl-c, an image appeared in the clipboard viewer. How can you tell if the
clipboad is locked? There was no indicator anywhere in the clipboard
viewer that said what application might have a lock on it.

j

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

an image appeared in the clipboard viewer

Can you tell which image that is. Perhaps a program taking screenshots from
the background? Is the same behavior seen when in Safe mode?

David Candy wrote an application which can tell the name of the program
which has locked the clipboard.

Download GetOpenClipboardWindow.zip from here:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/temp/GetOpenClipboardWindow.zip

Unzip and run the tool. Post back what it reports. For best results, run
this utility during the time you encounter the Copy<=>Paste problem.

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com

Joshua,

To know if the clipboard is locked by a third-party software, try this:

Click Start, Run and type CLIPBRD
Copy sample text from a document and see if the text is shown in the
clipboard viewer.

Sometimes the text shows in the clipboard, but sometimes when I pressed
ctrl-c, an image appeared in the clipboard viewer. How can you tell if the
clipboad is locked? There was no indicator anywhere in the clipboard
viewer that said what application might have a lock on it.

j