Olav the Viking

1) Cursor has always been in the right spot. 2) Point taken. Thanks! 3) Eli's misunderstanding of the problem helped me, by mistake, find out what worked on the forum. What, specifically is the purpose of the "switch" icon (with no hover text to describe it) on the forum editor tools upper left corner? I see that it changed the font from a proportional font to monospaced Courier, but that change, and only that change, was the only thing that allowed me to copy/paste in the PDN forum on FOUR different Win7 Pro machines in my house. Like I said, copy/paste works fine on the XP machine, and the only reason I tried it is because of copy/paste problems with IE11 that were mentioned on the M$ forums. I think it would be an extreme coincidence if the same event is wreaking havoc with the clipboard at startup on 4 different machines, one of which is a brand new Win7 Pro installation with UAC enabled and minimal changes to it. 4) I AM using Win 7 on all my active machines, but rather than upgrading a "beater" XP Pro laptop with a retarded processor that will eventually be trashed, I use it as a dedicated PC in the living room at this time of year to feed my 50" flatscreen TV with the live video from my American Kestrel nestbox cam. Hatching starts next week. I can see that the switch "exposes" the HTML formatting commands, but only with those commands "exposed" (showing the Courier monospaced font) am I able to copy bare text from Notepad or EditPadLite into the editor. Any ideas why copy/paste works on an XP PC and not a Win 7 one?

Sandboxing program? Please explain - I did not see that anywhere in the settings for PDN. If you are referring to an internet security suite, this machine (the Dell Inspiron 1520 laptop) is not running any security program because it's a junker. The Dell GX620 is running KIS2016. Both PCs have the crash problem. No problem at all, however on the GX620 when running PDN 3.5.11 on Win 7.

I have tried installing Paint.NET version 4.0.9 on two different Win 7 Pro (32-Bit) Machines in the past 2 days; one a Dell GX620 Desktop with a Pentium 4 with 4 GB, and One a Dell 1520 Laptop with a 2.00 gigahertz Intel Core 2 Duo T5750 with 3 GB of ram. For both installations, I have tried doing a screen print ([Print Screen] OR ALT + [Print Screen]) and then with Paint.net open I do a CTRL + V to paste the screen print into the window, as I have done quite successfully with Paint.NET version 3.5.11 on another XP Pro machine for about 3 years. I have also tried a smaller sized .jpg file Copy/Pasted instead of a screen print and get the same results. When I do that with version 4.0.9 on either of these two different Win 7 machines, it blows up, bleeds the paste attempt out the bottom of the screen, hangs up and does nothing. I had to manually terminate the program in order to recover on both of these machines. I uninstalled the program on both of the machines, did a fresh download from http://www.dotpdn.com/downloads/pdn.htmland did a reinstallation on the Dell 1520 since it has a newer processor. I got the same results with the new download/installation. See the screen print of the Paste / Bleeding. If I don't do a paste, but just open a file, select part of the picture, crop to selection and then attempt to save the cropped part, the program hangs and I must manually terminate it also. I did screen prints of the entire sequence. I disabled Hardware accelerated rendering (GPU) [No effect; it still crashes] I tried simply reading in a .jpg file, resizing it (smaller) and saving it. It crashed doing that also. I installed the good old reliable Paint.NET version 3.5.11 on the Win 7 Dell GX620 Desktop with a Pentium 4 with 4 GB machine and it works just fine. Since I have been used to working with that one for 3 years, and I haven't missed anything, I've decided my time is more valuable that trying to see if I can/could/maybe get the newer version to work. This goes back to the old engineer's adage: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Does anyone have any explanation for this behavior, or is it just a coincidence that both of my machine exhibit this same behavior using software that has been released for a few months and nobody else has observed this behavior? At this point, I'm about ready to throw in the towel! CPU usage goes to about 43% when the program hangs and there are no crash logs present in C:\Users\[user Name]\AppData\Local\paint.net\CrashLogs There is session data stored in C:\Users\[user Name]\AppData\Local\paint.net\SessionData\51877179 Is any of this info going to help for troubleshooting?

I saved the settings, closed the editor, logged out, closed IE and reversed the procedure to get back to here. Why can't I do a CTRL + V or Use the paste icon to paste the text from EditPadLite into this page? I ALWAYS put my text into a text editor because too many times, I have seen forums screw up or timeout and then you loose all that you have typed. Update: I went to the PDN forum on a Win XP Pro machine and copy/paste worked fine, which is how I finally pasted one edit to my original posting. On XP I don't get a pop-up window that says "Do you want to allow this web page to access your clipboard?" [Allow access] / [Don't Allow] like on both of the 2 Win 7 Pro machines that I have tried (unsuccessfully) to copy/paste on. WTF? I've never seen that one before, but it must be something related to M$'s obsession with security. I may have to do some more research unless somebody can mention a quick fix to this anomaly. This copy/paste topic is all over the M$ forums, and as usual, the buttholes have done nothing to address the problem. "Start in safe mode," "run SFC," "reset your IE settings," the list from their cookbook goes on and on from the lame M$ moderators and "gurus" (?). Time out for a hydraulic sandwich from a . . . I mucked around for about an hour, tried Group Policy Editor to modify copy/paste functions (which M$ had suggested), and that didn't work and then came back and found that Eli had posted "Select the "Text tool" before pasting." OK, I'm easy, so what is the Text Tool? I hovered over all of the icons in the editor, tried the three that related to paste (they didn't work) and then found the one in the top left corner that looks like a switch when I zoomed to 300% to be able to see it. It was the only icon that didn't have a hover popup, but a click on it changed the font from a proportional to a fixed-pitch courier font. THEN, I was able to paste text from EditPadLite. Problem finally solved, but my question remains, why is this the only forum that I have encountered, in over 15 years of doing this, that does not allow an unhindered CTRL + V?