Re: Likely another futile plea for Clipboard Help!!!

Ghosty Goo <Ghosty.Goo.3kv1fc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Greetings Techarena Folksters- -(for the most part, if you wish, you can
scroll straight to "the burning question" below- i *do* ramble somewhat
and in the words of Ovid (i think) "de gustibus non est disputandum")-

I've read what must be about 100 threads across about 30-40
tech forums regards this issue i have and your forum (although not
giving me a direct answer) seems to me the most logically set out and
helpfull of the 30-40 or so i've scanned; hence my giving you my email
address *chuckle*.

I've seen alot of folk asking this question i have in similar terms but
without (or so i think) giving good and proper reasons for their
needs/requirements. As such, due to this seemingly inherant reluctance
to properly outline the problem i can find no complete and definative
answer, i digress, and once you hear my question you'll know why. What
is:- the need to erase something from the clipboard? LOL.

*My Dilema*- I'm an avid writer and more often than not some of my
creativity bleeds over into my social networking life; tonight was one
such night. My sweetheart is so very far away and very much alone in a
dire predicament and all in this - the season of goodwill. One of the
only certainties she has in the universe just now are my words of
encouragement and somewhat poetic adorations. As perceptively little or
large as this may or may not seem to a stranger on a forum *sigh* it is
all we have just now.
What have i done? Heh. Well...i spent around abouts 3 hours typing out
my undieing unending love for her, proclaiming that it would not matter
how long our situation took to resolve and regardless of how many
seasons will pass until our love for one another can be expressed
legally. Yes, she is married and yes, we are both very much firm
believers in marriage vows and although neither of us are really
religious and thus are unconcerned with speculative judgements from
ectoplasmic entities we both believe that what is joined in law must
only be unjoined by the same ie. Divorce.
Did i digress again? Ah well, saves me an "introduce yourself" post i
guess!?
So, again, what did i do? Facebook decided not to tell everyone (as per
flipperty usual) that java had been updated (or so i understand) and so
my -certainly nigh on- 1000 letter love note to her would not send (as
java was not working). Being something of a comp nerd i spotted the
problem was java immediately (looking to the top of the page revealed
that the status change box did not have a 'post' button and all the
'comment' links simply sent firefox into perpetual ask/ignore mode lol
e.g. xxxx is trying to contact...xxxx is not responding....xxxx is
trying to contact etc etc. Java, sure as eggs is buffer overflow payload
jargon referring (mostly but not exclusively) to the binary coding of
format string attacks. Next move? New tab and sunsystems java checker to
confirm my suspicions. Yep, i'm runnng an inferior version on both FF
and IE. Bummer. Selecting all of the wonderous words of devotion,
support and undieing admiration for my loved one i dutifully hit ctrl+c,
seemingly safe in the knowledge that once java was updated i could
ctrl+v in the newly functional, javaly updated, chatboxness. How did
stupidy goo get boohoo? I thought i'd save myself some time and check IE
too- in absolute adverse ignorance in spite of all my windows knowy-how
i selected the sunsystems java checker addy in FF browser bar and
did.........yep. Ctrl+c. Close FF, open IE, ctrl+v in the browser bar
and off we go getting IE java checked. All good which was comforting
since on the previous java platform updates i remember having to update
IE and FF seperately. Once more (as i have OFTEN done much to the
disagreement of most of my peer group) i pat Vista on it's Silverlight
and glow warmly in the knowledge that i was right to upgrade despite
everyone i know having idiot problems with Vista regards operational
permissions. Although admittedly digressing a third time i would take
joy in extrapolating thusly- if a person has no idea why disabling
Vista's Administrative constraints renders obsolete almost 75% of
questions posed on forums such as this well, i'm afraid in my humble and
irreducible opinion, person should NOT be using Vista or at the very
least should not be attempting to do what it is that Vista's all
powerful admin hammer is telling person they possibly ought not to be
doing....
...for almost exactly a year now i've been defending Vista tooth and
nail, teaching those i deem worthy to look after their Vista install
without the need for admin related failed installs, apps which won't run
and heheh- i'm sure i don't need to be telling you guys and gals! While
simultaneously showing off, at every opportunity, such delights as
widescreen, fully 3dimensionally immersed, realtime space battles in
Star Wars Empires At War + super-responsive, intelligent polygon physics
in Force Unleashed on my wall mounted flatscreen; not to mention every
silverlight news snippet/demo released (from the sublimely simplistic 3D
window browser few realise the potential of to the ever so cute
Silverlight based city builder on Facebook, yes..it's true, it's real
and it works heh, if you like the person who's silverlight enhanced city
you are visiting you can add a scientist or a cognition engineer or or
or even a hairdresser and if you don't like them you can add a polish
vodka distiller or a cultist; if you are really bummed by said person
you can add such maladjusts as hookers, serial killers and insane
geneticists. Fun.) Much digressing.... wonderful Vista, yes. Until
now.

I quickly realised on returning to the original FF window (now leaving
javatest and rushing it's way to facebook and my inbox to reply to my
sweetheart, remember? heheh) that i'd copy/pasted the sunsystems test
addy thus consigning 1000-/+ words of sublime and soul warming
loveliness to the deeper recesses (or so i thought) of my machine. Ergh
me says to meself, yer a dullard at times...but just how much eh? Hmmm.
Immediately i did what i would've done on XP: *Start > Run >
clipbrd.exe*. You guys and gals i expect are at this stage totally ahead
of me ain't ya? There's no such thing is there? Clipboard history is (or
so it seems) not a part of Windows Vista.

The crunch is this- does anyone know of *ANY WAY AT ALL* to recover the
lost literature? From reading many many other odd requests for help
regards Vista clipboard history, clearing of such and accessing through
the .exe i've come to the conclusion that clipboard has had it's
functionality so much nerfed that it is no longer possible to access
it's history. Bad Vista!! Naughty Vista!!! Even if i copy clipbrd.exe
from sys32 on my old XP machine i'm not even mildly convinced i'll
magically find my 3-4 pages of romantic meanderings eagerly awaiting my
loading up of such; in short, i'm quite certain, clipboard is not the
answer.

What i'm now wondering, -and hoping you've at least enjoyed this post
as much as i've enjoyed composing it-; wondering wondering....see, i
pressed "send" on my browser once i'd finished writing to my sweetheart
and left it for quite some amount of time before (firstly, obviously)
checking my connection since facebook was refusing my submission in a
most flagrant manner.

_*The_Burning_Question*_:

Is my composition, my soul massaging literary wonder, my opus literatus
maxim (apols for rusty Latin - 32 (years i am) minus 13 (i was last
taught Latin) equals 19 (years of rust lol) despite a vivid rememberance
of "Locus Desperatus"!!) stored in a cookie somewhere? I know...it's
almost too absurd to hope for isn't it? But (and my knowledge is not
wide in this area) considering post data, cookies etc i'm thinking,
"What have i got to lose by asking?".

Can anyone restore my faith in Vista? Can my Love Letter be saved? Am
i faced with a Locus Desperatus? Any and all suggestions would be most
graciously welcomed.......i'm distraught!

-Kind regards, The GhostyGoo (Value Packs of 10 with 5 Varieties).



^^^^Do you expect anybody to actually read all that crap?^^^^

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