In messages dated Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Anna Summers writes: >>>Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 13:30:47 -0400 From: generalstuff <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Clipboard no longer accepts images from websites I have no trouble copying an image alone to the clipboard. What has changed is that a section of highlighted text that INCLUDES some images now leaves out the images. In the clipboard viewer, you can see that the images are left out and only the text copied in. If you look at the clipboard viewer options, you can see that the html & other options are unselected and greyed out. Clipboard has changed. I would like to get a copy of the fully functioning clipbrd.exe that I was using before. Where you would want to paste editable text that includes images would be into Word (or Wordpad). I have a feeling it has something to do with the new, so-called "Trustworthy Computing" wherein MS is trying to force you to allow internet access for applications, as they say with Longhorn they will be able to delete things from your computer remotely or even shut your computer down if they suspect "piracy." I don't do music or piracy - I just want to copy and paste my check-images-with-the-bit-of-text again in one easy copy/paste like have have been doing these past 5 years. Ann >>>I have looked at a lot of these, tried many of them. None clip the text AS TEXT and also include any embedded images as images. All that I have seen either... (1) "clip" an IMAGE of the text + images so that the text is not editable, highlightable, etc. - it isn't text AND images, it is ONLY an IMAGE of the text + images and only copies what is visible at one time on the screen - no scrolling copy. MWSnap is the best of these that I have found and its a great utility. or (2) monitor whatever the windows clipboard already does, and since windows clipboard has had the features I need disabled, well, what I need never gets to the clipboard in the first place. What I need is NOT something to MONITOR the Windows Clipboard, but something to REPLACE it (or an older version of clipbrd.exe). Microsoft not only didn't ADD any functionality to Clipboard, they TOOK AWAY functionality. Anna Summers >>>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 I found a few articles on the web that might help you in your case. I wonder if you have somehow limited the functionality of Word by limiting and/or restricting how it accesses web pages. One thing I know about MS and its never-ending patch process; the original intent of the web was for free and unlimited access in the exchange of information among professionals. Microsoft based alot of their programs, and subsequently built in tight web integration for this, on this premise. It is unfortuanate that with hindsight being 20-20, there wasn't more attention paid to reducing potential pitfalls associated with this freedom. I don't blame MS for all of the problems associated with their software, at least initially, because why place the blame there? The sad truth is there are too many individuals willing to spend counter-productive time compiling rogue programs to ensure the counter-productivity of the rest of the world. Hence the security restrictions and barriers we all must raise to be able to do what should be freely; exchange information. This link is to a website that has snippets of code that the author has fond to be helpful: http://west-wind.com/weblog/posts/356.aspx I found what may be some useful information in my July 2005 issue of PCWorld (http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,120783,00.asp) and toward the bottom of the page there is a link that takes you to the MS website. The MS KB link is here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/897693 HTH Chris Ryan [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] The NOSPIN Group Promotions is now offering our special coffee cups and mouse pads with the PCSOFT logo... at a great price!!! http://freepctech.com/goodies/promotions.shtml