Thanks to Joel, I now know that you can press Ctrl+C when Windows pops up an error message and have the text of that message copied to the clipboard.
So, this error message…
…becomes this…
--------------------------- metapad --------------------------- Save changes to setuplog.txt? --------------------------- Yes No Cancel ---------------------------
You learn something new every day.
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November 19, 2004 at 19:13
What I’m interested in is how *he* found out about it. Just a lucky guess?
November 19, 2004 at 19:29
Swweeeeet. I’ll remember that for my Windows endeavors. Best pass that nugget of information to my co-workers at the Helpdesk – I’m sure they’ll appreciate it.
November 19, 2004 at 19:32
troworld: Could be, but remember that Joel used to be a Microsoft employee. Maybe he was the one who put it there
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November 19, 2004 at 22:38
Now if only somebody would write a plugin that changes it so ctrl-c maps to cancel – oh wait, this isn’t Firefox.
November 20, 2004 at 02:02
Dang this is a neat trick. It could be a debugging hook for QA (or maybe not).
November 21, 2004 at 18:30
I found that out before. I think I posted about it some time, but I can’t remember.
I myself got it by accident. But it is a really cool feature, I agree.
November 21, 2004 at 20:20
Neil: As far as I know he was working on Excel’s macros. I doubt he fiddled around with such things as dialog windows across the OS.
November 24, 2004 at 20:23
LordRich: what, the Escape key not good enough for ya? (And I think you mean extension, rather than plugin.)
November 28, 2004 at 18:43
Neat Windows Trick
When somebody’s calling me with a computer problem, or they see an error on their screen, they’ll usually tell me something generic like “I got this error on my screen.”…