Windows

Another weird windows xp behavior: for some reason, I couldn't access the Windows Clipboard -- no copy, cut, paste -- on my WinXP desktop at the office. I thought mysql-front was the culprit.

I found some suggestions on the net, so I tried to run the clipboard viewer (clipbrd.exe). It also couldn't access the system clipboard!

Then I ran into this, and I'd like to duplicate his post here for posterity (and this will also serve as a backup of his post):

Many users often complain to their system adminstrator that their clipboard is not working and they are unable to do copy/paste operations and it is the task of sys admins to break their head to find out the reason. Dear sysadmin...no more you need to do that. I came across a good tool which can help you to solve this problem.

This problem generally occurs when a process locks clipboard for reading and writting and didn't release it properly. Clipboard will function normally after killing that process. The tool (GetOpenClipboardWindow) will help you to identify the culprit process. Download this tool now and share it with users.

From my experience, I can say that mostly mstsc.exe is the process which blocks the clipboard. The reason I assume here is simple because it dealts with clipboard of connected computer and your computer.

Happy Learning..,
Sitaram Pamarthi

-- from http://sys-talk.blogspot.com/2009/04/clip-board-not-working-in-windows-xp.html

His GetOpenCliboardWindow told me that flashget.exe was the culprit. When I exited flashget, the problem went away.

Thanks, Sitaram!