Clipboard not working across applications in 2000

[theEclipse]

Hello,

I have noticed lately that when I attempt to copy something from one application to another via the clipboard, it doesnt work. It seems to me as though each application each has its own clipboard, because copy and paste work within an app.

Any Ideas?
Robert

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[bcastner]

You might have Office installed. In that case you have two clipboards - Windows and Office.

The Office Clipboard can copy from any source but can only paste items into Microsoft Office programs such as Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint.

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q221/1/90.ASP

 

[landlubber]

In fact, if you have Office XP/2002 or 2003, Word tends to clear the Windows Clipboard as it opens. After it's open, then the Copy and Paste from other sources works. Word XP/2002 and 2003 can have up to 24 items in their clipboard.

 

[theEclipse]

Thanks for the reply.

I do, it fact have office installed. However the only ms product than I really use is the VB6 IDE, and I dont even really use that.

I have noticed that I cannot copy out of or into any program from any other program. One example of this is that I was trying to copy some text from the o/s to ultraedit (a plaintext editor). and it seemed that ultraedit had its own clipboard and so did the o/s.

I know for a fact that ultraedit does not have a dedicated clipboard because I use it all the time at home and it works perfectly....

any ideas?

Robert Carpenter
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[bcastner]

This could well be a DLL registration issue.
Open a new notepad session, to be called DLL_fix.cmd, and copy/paste the below:

regsvr32 urlmon.dll
regsvr32 Shdocvw.dll
regsvr32 Msjava.dll
regsvr32 Actxprxy.dll
regsvr32 Oleaut32.dll
regsvr32 Mshtml.dll
regsvr32 Browseui.dll
regsvr32 Shell32.dll

Save the file, then double click dll_fix.cmd and answer the prompts. Ignore any error messages.

Reboot and test again.