Help! Cannot Do Any Cut/copy/paste

jedipi

Apr 25 2005, 02:06 AM

Yesterday, I found that the CUT/COPY/PASTE in the right click menu are all disabled.
I opened a word document, then create another new word document.
Ctrl+A select all in the source doc and COPY it. Yes COPY works in source document.

However, when I wanted to PASTE it into the new WORD document,
the CUT/COPY/PASTE in the right click menu are all disabled (grey color).
Now I cannot do any CUT/COPY/PASTE...>_<

This happen not only in WORD document, but also other type of document such TXT.

I tried to find the answer in Microsoft websitem. But cannot find anything relates to this proplem.

What does cause this proplem?? how can I solve it??
Thank you!!!

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banjosforpeace

Apr 25 2005, 05:54 AM

What OS are you using? Different versions of Windows have different clipboard controls.

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miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG

Apr 25 2005, 05:57 AM

Did you get a Illegal Function Call of some similar error saying svchost has crashed - right before this ? I used to face similar problems when my svchost would crash and cut-copy-paste would go away till I rebooted. Now, is your problem permanent or is fixed upon a consecutive reboot ? If it gets fixed on reboot, then surely it's a problem with svchost.

Try finding all the security patches relating to svchost and apply them. I have no idea which one fixes it - but the problem went away only after I applied all the patches.

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emersonbrum

Apr 25 2005, 08:40 AM

how much memory do you have in your PC ?
have you ever tryied to do it in other programs ?

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finaldesign

Apr 25 2005, 08:46 AM

It's a virus. check with latest updated antivirus software - I recommend kaspersky. I had same problem loong time ago, and after a while I discovered that it's a some stupid virus...

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jedipi

Apr 26 2005, 02:04 PM

QUOTE (microscopic^earthling @ Apr 25 2005, 04:57 PM)

Did you get a Illegal Function Call of some similar error saying svchost has crashed - right before this ? I used to face similar problems when my svchost would crash and cut-copy-paste would go away till I rebooted. Now, is your problem permanent or is fixed upon a consecutive reboot ? If it gets fixed on reboot, then surely it's a problem with svchost.

Try finding all the security patches relating to svchost and apply them. I have no idea which one fixes it - but the problem went away only after I applied all the patches.

Thank you, microscopic^earthling.
Problem disappeared after I reboot Windows.
However, I couldn't remember if I got a Illegal Function Call error or not...

After this, I use symentec Antivirus to do a whole system scan, but no virus are found.

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miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG

Apr 26 2005, 03:21 PM

Yup... then its 100% your svchost.exe giving out problems... Funny thing is this used to happen a whole lot to me during one long spell.... It stopped for a while after I installed all the patches.. and then started again.

But give it around 2-3 weeks, and it'll go away (ghostly)... lol.. it comes back now, only when I run a whole bunch of applications together and windows generates a page fault. Otherwise its stays all calm and cool.

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