Copying problem on Windows XP?

Question

I may have asked a similar question before, but I never got any good answers. My problem is, this computer is very bad at copy+paste. I don't know why, but often when I select something like some text on a web page or the text in the address bar and copy it, it just plain doesn't get copied and what stays on the clipboard is whatever I had before that. A FEW times I THINK it even blanked the clipboard before copying what I was trying to copy. I know it is not due to me not pressing keys hard enough or something, because when I'm using FireFox it sometimes does it even when I right click on pictures and click 'copy image location'. It seems my computer is using ClipBook, I'm not sure if that's standard on Windows XP or what, but it doesn't seem to show any options or even any help topics relating to this problem.

Any ideas on how I can fix it?

Perhaps I should note that this seems to happen more with some things than with others; the address bar is horribly bad, text off web pages is somewhat bad, but copying FROM a text editor such as Notepad or OpenOffice seems to be pretty much free of errors.

MariahCarey98, maybe I didn't make it quite clear but this is NOT a problem with websites restricting what I can copy. This can happen on pretty much any website, and like I said it even works on the address bar which should be entirely independent of the page's own scripts and settings. It is also inconsistent in that it will sometimes take several attempts to copy whatever I'm copying but EVENTUALLY it works, which wouldn't be the case with protected web pages.

Norm, that sounds like a better idea. I'll go look up ClipBook and see if I can find anything about uninstalling it while keeping the clipboard working and so on.

Answer 1

That's weird - clipbook is a windows service that allows you to share clipboard contents with other computers - something like that - if you want to try disabling it - go to Start -> Run - type in "services.msc" - find ClipBook then right click it -> properties -> press stop to stop it then choose "disabled" from the "Startup type" drop-down menu - See if that works..

Answer 2

Hi Green,

I am not familiar with "ClipBook". It sounds like an add on to me.

If you are having trouble copying parts of web pages many can't be copied to the clipboard. If it isn't that I would suspect your "ClipBook".

Go to add/remove programs and if it is listed uninstall it. That should revert you to Windows resident clip copy routine.

I recommend and use Clipmate. It is a powerful program with lots of extra features. You can read about it & try it free here - http://www.thornsoft.com/

I hope that helps you. I use my clipboard all the time and if I ever had a problem I would go nuts.

Norm

Answer 3

well some pages do not allow you to copy anything from there page. That is why you got to beat the system. Highlight wat you want then press ctrl+c. It should copy the text or pic. If not then Highlight and go to edit and see if "copy" is is highlighted if so click on it and then Ctrl+V in to word. If both methods do not work when trying to paste in word, then try pasting it in notepad 1st before word. This should help. If neither work then it is copywritten and the website owner does not want you to copy there material. If that is not the case. Then there is a problem with your windows and You have to re-install it. But before you do that. Make a back up of all your important files

Answer 4

nerd. =)