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lifehacker.com — We've all gotten error messages in Windows, and we generally all take the same approach to getting to the bottom of the error: by searching the contents of the message in Google. The annoying part of this process has always been that you can't select and copy text in the error message box, so you have to try manually typing out the error message.

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  • VitalRecords, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Darn IT! All this time. I feel so Stupid! And I call myself a tech.

    Excellent find, I wish I knew about this. Lesson learned. Thanks
  • jhofman, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Talk about handy. Now if I had a nickel for every time I could have used this. . .
    (Just hit good old Ctrl+C to copy the entire message to the clip board!)
  • kevyn, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2great tip - how many people in the IT industry didn't know about this one?? (me for one!)
  • rbrown, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Excellent find. Why couldn't Microsoft have added something to tell you about it the first time? It bleeding tells you about everything else, including the critical fact that you've got unused icons on your desktop - "Oh no!".
  • drethedog, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Awsome tip... I just wish i had learned this one 10 years ago....... CLIPPY don't know *****......
  • gjlutz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1better than a screen shot
  • agentlame, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I love this! Life is now worth living, again!
  • willow0285, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0Love it! So much easier than writing it out by hand and then typing it back into the computer.

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