When I was able to do the copy/paste, I was using HP's version of XP from
2002.
I reinstalled my OS from a WinXP SP1 CD, in order to get rid of HP's
"crapware" (they sell space on your hard drive to advertisers) and so I
could recover the wasted space from their "recovery" partition and then
partition my primary disk the way I want it partitioned.
I have a lot of protection for my system and don't do Microsoft updates any
more. I trust them not at all since I found out about their true intentions
with Longhorn. They keep slipping little pieces of it in. I think it was
2000 when they first started talking about "Palladium" - but after all the
negative user response, they dropped it (for a while) and now reintroduce
it, calling it "Trusted Computing," hoping users will misinterpret that to
mean trusted for users, more protection for users." Word 2003 is a
precursor. I use it, but I don't want it having any direct internet
access - and that's exactly what the change to the clipboard is forcing.
Somewhere along the line clipbrd.exe has been replaced and you can see in
the clipboard viewer that the options for the type of copy/paste (editable
text including images) I'm talking about have been disabled and greyed out.
Now Word pastes LINKS to images occurring in the text instead of actual
images. You can force it to paste the image (Ctl+Shift+F9 on each image),
but it has to have direct access to the internet to do this because the
image is no longer in the clipboard.
I'm just trying to find out if I can get a copy of the old, fully functional
clipbrd.exe (and clipsrv.exe) from somewhere.
Anna
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Penlington" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 2:36 AM
Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] Clipboard no longer accepts images from websites
Anna wrote:
>Apparently website images are no longer put into the clipboard.
>
>Does anyone know WHEN Microsoft did this? Or if there is a way around it?>>
First, is your clipboard working at all ? Can you copy/paste other images?
Second, if you suspect it's an XP update (possibly to plug the
recently-discovered jpg vulnerability? I don't know. Like Anna, I dislike
auto updates), then uninstall the suspect update via Add/Remove. You'll be
more at risk, of course. Just how much risk depends on your defences and
browsing habits.
Try System Restore, if it's only just started to happen.
Try a registry restore. That's usually the easiest way to fix most minor
glitches in the system. But beware, that also might undo some Update
patches. I suspect most system updates would involve changes to the
registry. Which is why it's important to make regular registry backups
(Please, NOT via Regedit/Export).
Don Penlington
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