Windows Tip: copying error messages

Subject: Windows Tip: copying error messages
From: "Susan Hogarth" <hogarth -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:02:26 -0400

Although you can't select the text in and error box, you can copy it
to the clipboard. Which I just found out.

http://lifehacker.com/software/windows-tip/copy-error-messages-text-to-the-clipboard-268547.php

MS, bizarrely enough, says control-insert rather than control-c -
which does seem to work, but... why another keyboard combination?

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