Cut 'n' Paste Stops Working

[PetrolTed]

Windows 2000 Professional

After being up for a couple of days my cut and paste stops working in certain situations.

Anyone got any ideas?

[luca brazzi]

Had this at work recently too....on Win2000. Took a reboot to sort it....don't know why though. Now disappeared.

Strangely enough, it disappeared aroung the same time we put different a/v software on the network. Probably just a coincidence though.
LB

[Plotloss]

Oddly this started happening on all 3 of my W2K boxes about 2 weeks ago as well

[Marshy]

Has Windows Update updated you with some new bugs?

[simpo two]

I get a similar thing very occasionally with Ctrl/P not working. Perhaps just a keyboard oddity...

[wedg1e]

Last time I had this, Ted, it was that bloody MSBlast thing. I had some security patches on that prevented it from taking the whole system down, so I was able to use the PC. Every time I opened Internet Explorer, the thing went daft. No cut'n'paste, hyperlinks didn't work, silly things.
A Windows Update fixed it (daughter's fiance gets Microsoft stuff direct at work so he had the relevant disc to hand). No probs since.

Probably not, but I thought I'd chip in....


Ian

[PetrolTed]

Thanks, but I'm all firewalled, anti-virused and patched up to date. It started occurring within Visual Interdev. I've found other people with the problem there (but no solution) but occasionally now I can't copy a URL from Explorer into Notepad etc.

[Plotloss]

When this occurs Ted do you also get 'Unable to run this command' when trying to open things via the start menu?

[PetrolTed]

Nope.

I sometimes get something in Photoshop about 'bla bla past end of file' or something similar. Also get an error message when pasting in Excel sometimes.

[dannyboyo]

I had the cut and paste stop working on my mates PC. Turned out it was (one of many problems) caused by the MsBlast virus.

Hit Ctrl-Alt-Del and check whats running in your processes.

[smp]

Did this problem ever get solved ?

I've just rebuilt my home PC, reinstalled Win 2000 / Office 2000 and now have this problem.

All available updates applied, firewalled, AV etc all upto date.

Anyone got any clues ? 'Googling' doesn't really yield any joy

Simon

[Tripps]

Had the same with Windows XP / Office 2003 last week, thankfully a reboot got rid of it, but I've not explanation as to why it happened

[PetrolTed]

I discovered that it's only when I use Terminal Services that it stops working locally.

[ginettag27]

Ted

Just out of interest do all of the following still work/not work...

1) Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V

2) Ctrl Insert and Shift Insert

3) Right mouse click and cut and paste on the options, or Edit, cut and paste...

All 3 variants should work the same of course...

Trying to be of more help of course the following could be of interest...

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;278139

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;831504

HTH

Phil

[Tripps]

PetrolTed said:

I discovered that it's only when I use Terminal Services that it stops working locally.

Hmmm... I'd used TSC on the my desktop machine where the failure occured sometime last week, in fact thinking about it, the first time I noticed it was trying to copy-n-paste something from the terminal session to an e-mail message...

Mind you I dip in and out of client machines all day long on my laptop with no problems :scratchin:

Microsoft!

[smp]

Tripps said:

Had the same with Windows XP / Office 2003 last week, thankfully a reboot got rid of it, but I've not explanation as to why it happened

Rebooting doesn't seem to make any difference.

I think the best solution is to uninstall / reinstall and see what happens.

I'll post back if successful.

SMP

[BliarOut]

PetrolTed said:

I discovered that it's only when I use Terminal Services that it stops working locally.

Terminal services configuration > RDP/Tcp, right click, properties. Client settings

Enable/disable clipboard mapping as required.... Configures whether you can copy/paste between your terminal services session and your local PC or not.