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by itpro128

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I can't cut,copy,paste the text,file etc.. from one place to another and save explorer files.I am using Win2K professional.

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by rawright

You don't mention whether you are on your own machine, or a PC that is managed by someone else, but this sounds like a permissions issue. Your user account is a member of one or more groups, and each group has various permissions allotted to it. If you are a member of only the Everyone or Guest group, you probably have no rights to make any changes at all. Try logging in as Administrator and see if the problem goes away. If so, add your regular user account to a group with greater permissions.

by itpro128

Hi,
you r right!It is the issues with permissions.I found two "unknown user accounts"
in User profiles and I deleted that account and it works fine.Thanks a lot.

by joseph moore

You know, cut/copy/paste is controlled by the RPC service. And you are on a Win2KPro machine.
Has this machine been patched for the Blaster worm and its variants?
Does it have updated antivirus software?

What can happen with Blaster and/or its variants (like Welchia) is they attack a machine and try to exploit the problem with RPC. But on some machines, the attack fails.
YET, the attack manages to make RPC crash. The user sometimes gets a popup saying SVCHOST.EXE has failed. Some users even got the 60 second countdown to shutdown message.
If RPC failed and is now mangled, then functions like cut/copy/paste will not work.
I would check out this machine. Make sure it has SP4 for Win2K, and the updated Blaster patch (MS03-039). Plus antivirus software that is updated.

hope this helps

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