"Paste" Doesn't Work

[someone]

Windows XP Pro, Dell 4100. Recently, after I select "copy" from "edit" I
cannot "paste" the copied matter. In fact, "paste" is grayed out.

 

[Bob I]

Does the problem remain after you have logged off and then back on to
the PC?

 

[someone]

I've been having this problem for the last few days. I have my computer
configured so that I don't have to log on or off as I am the only user. I
have started, turned off, and re-started several times.

 

[Mike Cawood, HND BIT]

Windows XP Pro, Dell 4100. Recently, after I select "copy" from "edit" I
cannot "paste" the copied matter. In fact, "paste" is grayed out.

System Restore to before the problem happened!
Mike.

 

[someone]

AVG, on its daily scan, discovered a trojan horse in my System Restore and
yesterday I had to turn off System Restore, restart the computer, and turn
System Restore back on, so I've lost all my prior restore points.
Incidentally, I reset it to 5% or 1034. Not to hijack my own post, but is
that sufficient?

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Depends on the size of your hard drive and how many restore points you want
to keep on hand. How about some specifics? After all, 5% of a 20GB drive
is a lot different than 5% of a 200GB drive. Restore points use 100MB+ per
each.

 

[Terry R.]

The date and time was 2/27/2008 3:52 PM, and on a whim, Colin Barnhorst
pounded out on the keyboard:

Depends on the size of your hard drive and how many restore points you want
to keep on hand. How about some specifics? After all, 5% of a 20GB drive
is a lot different than 5% of a 200GB drive. Restore points use 100MB+ per
each.

Isn't "5% or 1034" specific enough? ;-)

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[Elmo]

Windows XP Pro, Dell 4100. Recently, after I select "copy" from "edit"
I cannot "paste" the copied matter. In fact, "paste" is grayed out.

Copy/Paste Problems? Click Start, Run, and enter these lines:

regsvr32 ole32.dll (Press Enter key)
regsvr32 /i shell32.dll (Press Enter key)

Also try Kelly's tweak (you'll find instructions at the top of the page).

Line 233 - Enable Drag and Drop
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

Click Start, Run, type SFC /SCANNOW, click OK. If any files are damaged
or missing, they'll be replaced. You may need to reboot afterwards so
damaged files will be replaced.

 

[HeyBub]

Windows XP Pro, Dell 4100. Recently, after I select "copy" from
"edit" I cannot "paste" the copied matter. In fact, "paste" is
grayed out.

Always?

Some files (i.e., some PDFs) are rigged such that the contents cannot be
copied. I think with these files you can seemingly "copy" but there's really
nothing in the clipboard, so subsequent "paste" is unavailable.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

I don't know what the 1034 represents.

The date and time was 2/27/2008 3:52 PM, and on a whim, Colin Barnhorst
pounded out on the keyboard:


Isn't "5% or 1034" specific enough? ;-)

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[JD]

Another possibility. If you use Works Suite, when Word opens it clears the
contents of the clipboard. So if you've copied something from the Web before
opening Word, the clipboard will be empty. As a test, before opening Word,
see if your copied material will paste into Notepad.

 

[Bob I]

I see your computer was a victim of malware, that is the cause of the
problem. Please use the procedure Elmo provided.

 

[someone]

Thanks. I tested the copy and paste with Microsoft Word, and it works.
However, I tried copying and pasting chess games from an email into a chess
software, and they didn't work. But the strange thing is that I was always
able to copy and paste those types of game notations into the chess software
successfully before. I had noticed that I could not even copy some stuff
from some websites since the website would not allow that, but I had been
able to copy chess notations on emails before.

"1034" is 1034 mb. I've left that as it is.

 

[Bob I]

Try Ctrl+Insert(copy) and Shift+Insert(paste) that sometimes works when
the "r-button" menu fails.

 

[someone]

Thanks. I'll try that at the next opportunity.

Try Ctrl+Insert(copy) and Shift+Insert(paste) that sometimes works when
the "r-button" menu fails.

 

[HeyBub]

Thanks. I tested the copy and paste with Microsoft Word, and it
works. However, I tried copying and pasting chess games from an email
into a chess software, and they didn't work. But the strange thing
is that I was always able to copy and paste those types of game
notations into the chess software successfully before. I had noticed
that I could not even copy some stuff from some websites since the
website would not allow that, but I had been able to copy chess
notations on emails before.
"1034" is 1034 mb. I've left that as it is.

Ah ha! Well, there's still might be a fix.

Contact the web master of the site at issue. He should be able to disable
the code that's disabling the copy command.

 

[Terry R.]

The date and time was 2/27/2008 7:20 PM, and on a whim, Colin Barnhorst
pounded out on the keyboard:

I don't know what the 1034 represents.

Well, we can almost surely say that 5% won't be 1034 gig, or 1034 Kb.
So wouldn't one naturally think megabytes?

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[Colin Barnhorst]

I have no idea what he meant by 1034.

The date and time was 2/27/2008 7:20 PM, and on a whim, Colin Barnhorst
pounded out on the keyboard:


Well, we can almost surely say that 5% won't be 1034 gig, or 1034 Kb. So
wouldn't one naturally think megabytes?

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Terry R.

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