I need a little advice on "cut & paste", I know this sounds weird,

as c&p is such a basic item, but here is what has been going on for the past week or so, (no problems before that):

I get about 3 c&p's before it just doesn't work, and I wind up restarting the machine.

I am using an HP, XP Pro w/a pentium4, cable hookup, browser is Opera. I usually keep 4-6 windows open as I Mod, and keep a lot of things happening all at once.

One other thing, I have a wireless modem going to son's PS3about 4 inches from the cable modem, everything I use is within a 6 square feet on the desktop.

Any idea what this could be, or is it merely a glitch that can be fixed by doing something incredibly simple?

Thanks for anyone who help w/this irritating dilema...:hi:

This may help, XP has sort of kept the old clip board viewer out of sight but you can find it at C:/windows/system32 look for clipbrd.exe and right click and select send to create a shortcut on the desktop.

Then right after you do copy operation open the clipbrd and see exactly what has been copied.

;)

After a while that thing can fill up and hit the file enumeration wall. 65535 files. We have a lot of PDF files and adobe always dumps them in the temp and does not clear them. One thing we notice is that when this happens, cut and paste stops working, and some other things as well.

I do it anyway but I figure its because I come from the dos world with a 20 meg hard drive. A hard drive I heard several people at the time, '88-'89, say wow man, what you going to do with all that space, ;-) my how times have changed
maybe it says a lot about me that I liked the dos world. I like to make things do what I want them to do sometimes rather than what they were designed for and dos kind of gave me that, kind of scratched that itch I guess. Right now I'm a fixing to do some serious hacking to my xp home and for that same reason. ;-)to scratch that itch

but the c:\temp or the c:\documents and settings\user\local\temp

It is used for just about everything, including a temp store for cutting and pasting.

I'll check that out. ;-)

Add: I put a shortcut on the desktop so I can monitor it, thanks

Cutting is cutting text completely out of a document and then pasting into another document or pasting it into a different location in the original document.

If you are Copying and Pasting large images, then you might be copying large amounts of data to the Windows Clipboard, which can hog resources.

How, exactly, do you do your cut & paste?