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Cannot 'Cut & Paste' or 'Drag & Drop' !

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by ebstar

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Anyone any ideas why I cannot cut & paste or drag & drop in windows 95? A client of mine has recently reinstalled Win95 OSR2 and now cannot use any clipboard functions. Most bizarre... I have seen this before in the past, but I've always solved it with a fresh OS install. As he has just reinstalled Win95, I'd like a better solution, or at least an explanation, if there is one.

Waiting expectantly....

Ebstar

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by syscokid

Strange! I never saw a "withdrawn" question before.

Anyway, you need to reinstall Active Desktop, which was originally released with IE 4 SP2. Here's some answers to previously asked questions:

From janstie on 11/20/00 04:29 AM EST: The solution was simpler than I thought it would be! Installing SP2 for Internet Explorer 4.01 did the trick. SP2 does incorporate the Desktop Update.

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Did you install the Windows Desktop Update?

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q165/6/95.ASP

From mkincer@kiusa.com on 05/26/00 12:30 PM EDT: Thanks, You got me going in the right direction. I ended up uninstalling IE5. ReinstallingIE4/w the Active Desktop option selected. Then upgraded back to IE5.

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Go to Microsoft's web site and download the IE 4 Service Pack. (That's right, IE *4*, even if you're using IE 5).

That worked for one user I knoww of.

From dmoore@rpindustries.com on 07/19/00 11:32 AM EDT: Works.. THanks

by syscokid

NOTE: If you cut and paste that Microsoft URL into your browser, it'll come up with a 404 error because I just noticed an erroneous space befor the 95.ASP. Delete the space and the link will work.

by ebstar

Excellent help, Sysko. Bryan's Office idea actually did the trick, but that's quite possibly due to office installing IE4 at the same time.. I've accepted both your answers

Many Thanks

Ebstar

by bryan_hartman

If you installed win95 over another copy of win95 you must do the following.

If you have Microsoft Office on your
Pc try running office clean from your
Office cd in the valuepack folder. Then make
Sure in program files folder you delete the
Microsoft office folder then reinstall MS Office.
For some reason this will fix you copy and paste problem
Even in other programs.

by ebstar

Cheers Mate! My client is a happy Bunny once more... problem solved...

Many thanks,

Ebstar

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