Paste stops working

[RhesusMonkey]

I am running a few microsoft products (MS office suite pro
2000, Corel Draw 7) on a new Dell laptop (Pentium IV;
windows 2000).

When I launch Word, everything is fine at first but after
a little while, the paste option stops working. I can
highlight some text and select Edit\Copy or ctrl-C, but if
I try to paste, nothing happens. The edit\Paste command
is disabled (greyed out).

This problem is also noticeable in Windows Explorer.
Although it works fine at first, after a little while I
can no longer click and drag documents.

Currently, the only remedy I have is to reboot the
computer.

Any advice is appreciated.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Failure of Copy/Paste is one symptom of the Blaster worm. See
http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/blast.asp

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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