Re: Paste action doesn't work into text fields (is trying to paste a printscreen, not what's in the clipboard)

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Reply to V Green....

the only variant that works, is drag and drop. Any use of the menu commands
or keyboard shortcuts does not (right-click, using the context menu, or
using the menu-bar commands). I've tried taskmanager before, closing
process after process until nothing's left, that's not worked.

I found numerous Firefox trouble tickets, and had a smoking gun - (I truly
think Firefox has something to do with it), but alas, there's new
information: I use two accounts on my computer - for everyday use, an
account without Admin privileges, and another with admin rights for software
installs, etc. On the Admin account, copy and paste would work fine, as
long as I never started Firefox. I started celebrating, and had it fixed.
Or, so I thought... On the Admin account, it was fixed, no problem. I
uninstalled Firefox, intending to make sure it all went away, and to
reinstall and see what happened (not reinstalled yet, though). Except back
on my day-to-day use account, without admin, and after a restart or three
just to make sure, I still have the same paste problem (it tries to paste a
screenprint, not what was/is in the cliboard).

I came across a shortcut-key viewer, I'm going to go see what shortcut keys
are defined. (I can't do it right now, the PC is at home, I'm at work at
the moment).

Thanks for the efforts

On a completely unrelated note, I also came across an interesting little
idiosyncracy: Adaware, virus scanners, etc... when you have multiple
accounts... won't always see everything... I suppose logically I should have
known that, but it was interesting.


"V Green" <vanceg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Malke" <notreally@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Talahassee wrote:

On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 03:49:21 GMT, john Q
<johnqfloridaNOSPAMPLEASETHANKYOUVERYMUCH@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have a computer with an unusual problem: In a nutshell, what
happens is the PASTE action, whether by mouse via the menu, mouse via
the context menu (right click) or by keyboard shortcut (control-p), is
actually trying to paste a printscreen as of the moment in time of
clicking/using the paste command (not the time of the cut/copy), not
the text in the clipboard. (it also doesn't matter how the copy or cut
happened, keyboard shortcut, program menu, or context menu, or copy,
or cut).

It's a guess, but it sounds like-- for whatever reason-- you have some
information "stuck" in memory.

And it was a *bad* guess. Your explanation was imaginative, but doesn't
have
anything to do with the way computers work in this reality. Perhaps you
were thinking of how things work in a parallel universe.

Malke, was this ^ really necessary?

Couldn't you just have taken a bit more time and said
something along the lines of "This can't happen, for the
following reason..."(short explanation of how the Clipboard
works goes here)?

This was not up to your usual standards...

To the OP:

How are you selecting what you're trying to copy?
The usual click n' drag?

Does it happen with multiple apps or only one?

If I had to "guess", I would look around for a running
background process that's interfering with normal operation
of the Clipboard (Task Manager can be helpful here).



Malke
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