Vista - Mouse malfunction in PowerShell on Server 2008

Hi
A frustrating problem. I cannot cut and paste in the PS window.
Leftclicking results in
"Select Windows PowerShell"
in the top bar after the PS icon

Rightclicking results in
"Windows PowerShell"
in the top bar after the PS icon.

What is setting the mouse to behave like this? Using My XP and Powershell,
the mouse behaves like it should with cut and paste.

I installed PS as a feature in Server 2008.

Yours truly,

On Jul 26, 9:28*pm, Martin T <Mart...@xxxxxx>
wrote:So far that sounds normal. Maybe you have XP configured do disable
QuickEdit mode. Come to think of it, that isn't default on XP.

The way QuickEdit mode works is: left-click and drag. When you lift
the mouse button, an area has been selected. Right-click, and now
that area is on the clipboard. Right-clicking one more time will
paste whatever is on the clipboard.

"Martin T" <MartinT@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Copy and paste? Use the Edit menu. Alt-Space,E


What is in your ClipBoard then?
Right-click is PS's quirky menuless Paste.

When I'm not thinking I can end up pasting
in the entirety of my last post, which of course
isn't parsed well by PS. ; )

FWIW I would prefer a right-click menu the same as cmd.exe.
Although I suppose once you got used to PS's quirks
being able to drag-select without using the Mark command
might be seen as an improvement.


I think you may have to improve your symptom description.
Now it sounds as if you might not even be able to do
a drag-select in some particular environment?


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
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"Robert Aldwinckle" <robald@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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But the interspersed lines of PS code from the post can occasionally give
you intriguing results. ; )

On Jul 26, 10:39*pm, "Robert Aldwinckle" <rob...@xxxxxx> wrote:cmd.exe has the same feature, it's just not on by default.

"tojo2000" <tojo2000@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks for the tip!

<title>Command Prompt QuickEdit Mode Is Disabled by Default in Windows XP</title>
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/282301

(Live Search for
quickedit cmd
)

Options tab: Insert mode versus QuickEdit mode


So, is the reverse available in PowerShell's Options tab?...

Yes. Too easy! ; )

Something I haven't figured out yet though:
I'm given the option to change my shortcut
but nothing obvious happened (to the .lnk file
as seen by its Properties display). (TBD <w>)


Thanks again.

Robert
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