Where is clipboard data stored?

[alfordjj]

I have a user that every time he opens Word 2000 or Excel 2000, an icon is in the clipboard's first slot. The icon will not come out on it's own, but rather you must clear the clipboard, then start your cut and paste. If you clear the clipboard, copy something, then shutdown Office, when you re-launch Office the data you copied is still in there, but the icon is now behind it in slot #2. The icon is from Adobe Writer.

Any idea where Office 2000 stores the clipboard data on the HD? It's writing it down somewhere because even after a reboot, it's still there.

I forced it to create a new normal.dot, but that didn't work. I'm at a loss. I thought clipboard data was only stored in volitile memory, not on the HD.

Thanks for any ideas you might have!!

 

[fumei]

I suspect it is from a template by Adobe. Do you have an Adobe plug-in? Yes, you do.

Try testing it without using that plug-in.

Gerry
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[alfordjj]

Looked in Word and Excel, but no Adobe add-ins were listed. I also looked up what temp files Microsoft uses for the clipboard (it's "~wrlxxx.tmp" if that's the sort of thing your interested in) and had the user search for those, but he didn't find any.

 

[xlhelp]

I would suggest you do a search under Windows Explorer for either Adobe or PDF. You will find the add-in in one of the startup folders. Make sure you look for hidden files as well.

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[fumei]

Also in Word, look for COM addins. The menu item for seeing COM addins is NOT listed by default. Look up COM addins in Help to see how to add the menu item to Tools.

However, xlhelp is correct, the first place to look is in startup folders.

Look in both Program Files/Office/Startup

and Documents and Settings/username/Application Data/Microsoft/Word/Startup.

Gerry
My paintings and sculpture

 

[tf1]

The clipboard creates temp files that it places in the user's temp folder (usually DOcuments and Settings, Username, Local, Temp). I suspect it is full of abandoned temp files.

Close all applications and navigate to the temp folder. Delete All. You may need to do this from a fresh reboot.


Regards: tf1