Re: Can't highight and copy text in websites

Thanks PA,

That looks to be rather a drastic step for now, but I'm glad you made me
aware of the procedure. For now I think I'll try comparing the IE settings
between users (though I vaguely recall doing this before and finding it very
tedious!)

Cheers,

Steve


"PA Bear" <PABearMVP@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Try Clean Boot troubleshooting to see if you can identify what's loading
at boot/running in the background that may be causing this behavior:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310353
--
~PA Bear

Steve Hawkins wrote:
In microsoft.public I cannot click into the signing in box with a left
click: I have to right click to get a cursor bar into the box and then
esc
the pop up to be able to write. Even when signed in, not even the right
click will get into the message panel, and the popup only gives the
option
to select all, which does the whole web page and will not let me cut out
the
bit I want. A shift right click does highlight the odd word in the
message
panel, but not so that you can extend the selection or copy it.

Similar behaviour takes place in the Google groups. This makes
communicating with yourselves and other 'community people' rather
difficult
at times, because every time I hop out of a message I'm composing, to
look
something up, firstly, I can't always actually copy the info I want to
include, and secondly I have trouble getting back into the message box.

There is on occasion a similar problem in Google searches. This used to
be
much more severe than currently, and would involve the whole google
search
page becoming gradually unintelligible with multilanguages occurring at
once. Nowadays it does not seem to get so advanced, but one tends to
gradually lose the ability to click: right click goes; then a bit later
left
click esc; then left click select all.

I had the same problem on Wikipedia and at the BBC until I added them to
my
trusted sites. I do not want to have to add all the web to trusted
sites!

I suspect that one of the custom/advanced settings in IE is probably 'too
secure' but am not sure which would be the one to cause this. I do like
to
have security as high as will still give me reasonable functionality
without
killing off basic functions such as the ones here described.

I tend to have settings to 'ask me first', and am used to clicking 'yes'
quite a few times on occasion, but is there perhaps a setting that is
completely off which should be on?

We have McAfee running (but not scanning e-mail as this forum has advised
that this is unnecessary), and the normal XP firewall.

I just tried from another user account and from there can get into the
msp
boxes and highlight and copy, but I would rather not have to reset all my
own settings to default to find out which is causing my problem. Even on
this other user account I now recall we had difficulty copying data from
Word, into an online form at Friends of the Earth (UK). Again, getting
into
the boxes was the main problem.

Thanks for your continuing advice,

Steve_H

"PA Bear" <PABearMVP@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Please cite a few URLs where you're encountering the inability to
highlight and copy text.

Also tell us what anti-virus and/or security suite(s) are installed,
loading at boot and/or running in the background.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)

Steve Hawkins wrote:
Actually that may read a little abrupt: not sure how much info you were
fishing for.

In system info the iexplore.exe file says 6.0.2900.2180 (IE properties
***
does not seem to provide version info?)

Various of the dll files have different numbers but many are the same.
The
prog has been kept up to date until the latest insistant messages to
'upgrade' to IE7... so far being avoided!
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"PA Bear" <PABearMVP@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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IE version?
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)

Steve Hawkins wrote:
I am finding fewer and fewer instances where I can highlight and
copy
text
etc from websites, and have to use various strategies to click into
boxes
and search boxes, which seem to ignore the left mouse button and
only
have
select all on the right (if I'm lucky). I am often having to select
all
to
get into a message panel to write in on-line news groups for
example.

I can understand this if it is material that might be copyright but
this
includes threads in news groups which is most inconvenient.

The only way I have at present of getting round this problem is to
add
sites
to my 'trusted sites group'.

What might be the IE setting which is preventing me from using this
basic
functionality, so that I can add it to my 'internet zone' settings
without
having to go the whole hog and 'trust' the whole internet?

Thanks in advance,

Steve_H



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