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crazy the dragnDrop part, i get that when i have a Xlarge >5gb file coping out of a zip, all dragNdrop stops working, wonder if 7zip uses clipboard to to extract it or just the fact that i have draggedNdropped it 🤔
Good morning from the UK, Joe. Yesterday, I discovered the SuperMSConfig tool which is apparently for W11. However, I managed to download it onto my W10 22H2 computer, although opening it took a bit of playing around. What do you think of it, and can you tell me if it works okay on W10?
This is facinating I'd bet theres a security vulnerability to be found. Imagine if you could trick a user into copying a file and have it execute malicious code... Great video one of my favorites you've done recently.
Especially considering how it could be used from within a default configured VM to silently "force" data outside the scope of the VM. Even if the clipboard is a flawless sandbox in the sense that nothing can be executed from within it, that doesn't protect wherever that data gets pasted to.
Already being exploited in the wild as "captcha" where the user is promoted to copy and paste in win+run. The clipboard is commonly used to scrape passwords and other PII as well through multiple vulnerabilities in browsers etc.
I'm pretty sure I remember Dave mentioning Joe in a video or two, so he might already be aware of this. It would be interesting to hear his perspective on it, whether he worked directly on the clipboard or not.
@@ThrowTop Mmh, actually not much did change, it is to my knowledge still based on DDE, and that didn't change much since the early days. Yes, you now have history, but thats more a "manage function", that just doesn't overwrite the last clipboard content anymore but makes a history, but the core is probably still the same. No idea, if Dave can say much about the clipboard. Even when he didn't work at it, he might have had conversations or meetings with others, that did.
Hey man, as a hobbyist programmer, I think it's really cool that you actually write programs that are useful and interesting and even have GUIs and stuff. That's hard to do! I usually give up!
I knew about registering custom clipboard formats and I suspected that, as with all things computing, there'd be consequences to reaching that limit (whatever it'd be). I never got round to experimenting with it so kudos to you for answering my unasked questions
According to Google Translate, the name of the tab at 11:15 is: Q Tongue Korean Traditional Wash and Care Pack-5 Lmao I guess the random unicode characters meant something after all
This can be a nasty denial of service vulnerability packaged into a malware. It is not complete for the system, but some stuff won't work. Kernel seems fine, but the application layer is broken.
Yeah, probably. There’s a lot of funky ways that you can break out of a sandbox, a lot of them are less tangible than using the clipboard as a plane ticket to the actual os
Yes, its a whole topic in cyber security called "Sandbox Evasion". Tho I've never really heard of it happening due to shared clipboard. They mostly exploit the virtual ethernet layer connecting the virtual machine to the host.
I thought you couldn't fill up the clipboard because it should just clear the previous stuff. You learn somehing new everyday! Thanks!
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The global atom table used for registered clipboard formats is also used for registered window messages critical for IPC, like the ever-important "TaskbarCreated" which tells apps to recreate their tray icons.
I really wish programs would return more useful error messages. If we got an 'your computer has run out of clipboard space, please reboot your computer' instead of the generic 'has run out of system resources', it'd be so much easier to troubleshoot.
I knew about the different types of clipboard formats, but didn’t know you could register your own or do any of the crazy stuff in the video. I love stuff like this, great watch. Thanks!
Amazing and interesting video! I didn't even know that copy and pasting can break computers. I mean anything is bound to break a computer if you do it too many times. Everytime my phone died, I saw my clipboard was reset and I went, "Hey? Where did my stuff go?" Lol. I remember one time one of my old laptops was acting stupid and at one point it gave me an error and it said it couldn't fix it but when I restarted it, the message said something like, "You're computer almost broke" or something on Windows. It was probably the ASUS laptop 💻
Thanks for the fun video. I often try to break things too (I was a software test engineer for many years), but you are so much better at breaking things than I am!
Cudos for writing this stuff! such small little tools and executables, have made my life so much easier for YEARS in the professional industry. clipboard, explorer, registry, are the main targets mostly. Ooooh what you actually can do with just a small little smart tool.
@@ThioJoe Can I safely uninstall CoPilot from my W10 22H2 computer without it causing any detrimental affects on other Windows functions? When I recently moved from W8.1 to W10, it wasn't showing, but an update a few days ago ensconced it onto my Taskbar! I don't want it. Thanks. EDIT - A simple YES or NO would be much appreciated. Thanks.
I always suspected that different data formats could be copied to the clipboard at the same time, but I never would have guessed how complex it really was under the hood.
I remember when you almost convinced me to wipe my xbox 360 cause it was actually secretly an xbox one in disguise and i just had to factory reset it to turn it into one. By god i was a stupid kid, good memories, glad to see you're still up and kicking
Thats for now the most surprising video i have seen on windows never in a million years i would have thought that the clickboard a thing you use to copy and paste thing can broke windows
Oh, wow.. this is a cool find.. I had no idea how much of windows was tied into the clipboard. I used to never clear my clipboard, bc I "might" need to reference that data again "one day." I am a data hoarder, lol. Anyway, thanks so much, TJ!
the clipboard is very cool stuff. I've played around with this kind of thing once in the past (for probably a similar curiosity) but I never got as far as registering custom stuff. I was mostly curious to find out exactly how copying and pasting files worked, and it's a lot different than what one might expect!
Wow, I run into my clipboard not working multiple times a week. I always thought it was my file Explorer having issues but restarting file Explorer never fixed it. I did work out a system restart fixes it but good to know why this is happening haha
I've had the drag and drop disabled and paste greyed out issue before, thanks for explaining why it happened iirc it might happen if pc is out of space
In our office, the Label Printer software was breaking both the copy/paste AND the "save function on Office 365. Only solution was to close everything (loosing all of your work) and reopen the software. Copy/pasting being one of the oldest, most basic function of Windows, I never expected it to be so fragile and complex.
I wonder if this could be an attack vector? Now that I think about it isn't it already? I think I heard one about people crashing a browser on mobile by filling up the clipboard. I might be confused though.
I've had problems similar to the ones shown in the video, but never thought it could be the clipboard! I have a terrible habit of using hibernation mode instead of doing a full shutdown - particularly when I'm doing video editing. Regularly save the project (using a "versioning" filename system) but some projects take so long to initially load that I leave the program running and just hibernate the PC...
I believe if you would be to use Windows a lot without restarting or logging off, it might just happen and need a reboot Soo probably its good idea to reboot pc often
New malware feature unlocked: registrating all Windows clipboard format possibles to prevent people for opening the taskmanager and killing the malware.
This is like the apps are office cubicles and you are in what they see is someone with a mountain of tasks ready to handout for them and they just disperse, lmao.
So theoretically, if you open enough different programs on your computer, you will eventually run out of clipboard format IDs and your computer will stop working?
I've never had things break down to this extent, but something about the work I wind up doing in GIMP has a penchant to partially break clipboard functionality with some frequency, and it's incredibly frustrating. I can usually still copy and paste text, but wind up needing to reboot before I can copy and paste image data. No idea why, and have yet to find a way to reliably mitigate or fix the issue otherwise.
hey joe, question for you. for deleteme, what if you WANT your info on that site to save yourself time typing it in, like filling in a password, or filling out a job application, etc
You've just shown issues I've add, drag and drop, copy, windows explorer crashing. I use clipboard board like a temp posted note, so my clipboard history (win10) always get full where it has to remove stuff that is too old. Maybe that is what's causing my issues. I've also noticed the clipboard history history reset when you screenshot and copy very large images, it seems to wipe them.
Hello, can you help me? One time my PC froze and I wanted to clip info to the clipboard. Eventually the clipboard opens but only the border is visible and not one function works. I dunno how to fix it for a year now...
I feel like it should clear unused registration when a software tries to register a new entry. Knowing this, it's kind of easy to make a malware that just fills up the clipboard registrations at boot and that probably won't be picked up by antivirus software. It sounds like an oversight, since for other things like running out of RAM Windows will absolutely purge the RAM if needed. That being said, I didn't know you could register custom formats for the clipboard, I tought it was either Text or Binary and it was up to the app to handle the data.
I always wondered about this, because different programs handle paste differently, for example uploading the file or just writing the filename. Very interesting video topic. I want to find out how it works on Linux and if there is av difference between X and Wayland
Recently on Windows 11, I’ve been noticing that I have been having clipboard copying issues on multiple computers. It’s been inconsistent when copying passwords, etc.
i have had a problem with clipboard in the past where i have copy and pasted alot items (maybe 100) then it seems get stuck i.e. i will copy ABC then paste=ABC copy XYZ paste=ABC copy DEF paste=ABC i have to clear the clipboard for it start working correctly....i cannot duplicate this behavior it seems to be random...
The windows sand box is a pretty good program for when you just want to test some suspect programs ot files. It also didn't have shared clipboard function when I needed, in the past. I hope Microsoft adds the option to edit some configuration about it. Like permanent storage for it. I know you can do it with some prompts, but it sucks.
Now can you do the same but for notepad on win 11? Mine has been broken for months it freezes if I try and view/close the file so yeah it’s just stuck there can I can’t remove it lol
I've done a lot of weird programing trying to make things do things that's they weird intended todo. I'm definitely aware of windows clipboard limit, there is also an issue where it can't keep up all the time and has to "think" it seems. (Regardless of how big or small the copied item or text is) As I'll clear the clip board history, copy something and then paste it and it will say there is nothing to paste, or it can't be pasted. But if I give it a few extra trys then it will go through. But mind you all happening within a few miliseconds as I'm running these actions through code. An error handler event just to spam windows paste function lol.
I thought the clipboard only stored the last thing you copied to it (since that's the only thing you can paste, no?). How do you add thousands of items to the clipboard?
@@SwissPGO Yesterday, I discovered the SuperMSConfig tool which is apparently for W11. However, I managed to download it onto my W10 22H2 computer, although opening it took a bit of playing around. What do you think of it, and can you tell me if it works okay on W10? Thank you.
@@EIRE55 I've not used it... and I'm no longer using windows 10: I upgraded to linux :-) but I still support windows machines as part of my job. Cheers,P.
@@EIRE55 Switzerland is pretty safe still. Apart from certain mountain areas where the effects of global warming can be seriously devastating for some villages where people lived for centuries and now need to be evacuated.
Can this be done from JavaScript in a web site? If so, this is a vulnerability since any malicious site can crash your computer by abusing the clipboard.
in high school i once crippled a school computer by copy pasting folders into them selves over and over again till windows broke they had to wipe the hard drive and reinstall windows.
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crazy the dragnDrop part, i get that when i have a Xlarge >5gb file coping out of a zip, all dragNdrop stops working, wonder if 7zip uses clipboard to to extract it or just the fact that i have draggedNdropped it 🤔
Good morning from the UK, Joe.
Yesterday, I discovered the SuperMSConfig tool which is apparently for W11. However, I managed to download it onto my W10 22H2 computer, although opening it took a bit of playing around.
What do you think of it, and can you tell me if it works okay on W10?
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It's the 3rd reply, actually, because mine was deleted.
@@EIRE55 I (maybe you too) can see it when changing _Sort by_ to _Newest first_ …
Aw man, i gotta buy a new clipboard
Don't buy one. You can download it!
@@Tom-re9or That's like downloading a car though
@@Sonictheoofhog4 sure!
Yeah just copy this link here... oh wait..
me too
This is facinating I'd bet theres a security vulnerability to be found. Imagine if you could trick a user into copying a file and have it execute malicious code... Great video one of my favorites you've done recently.
Yes I bet some of those crashes when the clipboard is full are buffer overflows and such.
Especially considering how it could be used from within a default configured VM to silently "force" data outside the scope of the VM. Even if the clipboard is a flawless sandbox in the sense that nothing can be executed from within it, that doesn't protect wherever that data gets pasted to.
Already being exploited in the wild as "captcha" where the user is promoted to copy and paste in win+run. The clipboard is commonly used to scrape passwords and other PII as well through multiple vulnerabilities in browsers etc.
Wow, I haven't played around with clipboard formats in ages. Nice video. The 2 byte limit for IDs has got to go back decades.
Even a 4 byte limit could be broken... it'll take just way longer, and require more memory.
You should reach out to Dave from Daves Garrage. He worked on early Windows and would probably have some insight on the clipboard.
@@johnsmith8981 doubt it. Clipboard is not one of those core system components that doesn't change. It's also not something he worked on.
Very clever Mr Jacob Gingleheimer. I know who you are. I googled you.
But yeah, what ThrowTop said.
I'm pretty sure I remember Dave mentioning Joe in a video or two, so he might already be aware of this. It would be interesting to hear his perspective on it, whether he worked directly on the clipboard or not.
@@ThrowTopespecially the clipboard history, that's relatively new
@@ThrowTop Mmh, actually not much did change, it is to my knowledge still based on DDE, and that didn't change much since the early days. Yes, you now have history, but thats more a "manage function", that just doesn't overwrite the last clipboard content anymore but makes a history, but the core is probably still the same.
No idea, if Dave can say much about the clipboard. Even when he didn't work at it, he might have had conversations or meetings with others, that did.
Hey man, as a hobbyist programmer, I think it's really cool that you actually write programs that are useful and interesting and even have GUIs and stuff. That's hard to do! I usually give up!
Windows codebase must be a nightmare of hacked together code that does a lot more than it seems at first.
I knew about registering custom clipboard formats and I suspected that, as with all things computing, there'd be consequences to reaching that limit (whatever it'd be).
I never got round to experimenting with it so kudos to you for answering my unasked questions
According to Google Translate, the name of the tab at 11:15 is:
Q Tongue Korean Traditional Wash and Care Pack-5
Lmao I guess the random unicode characters meant something after all
lamao
lol
I've been looking for a wash and care pack for my tongue. Didn't know it was a Korean thing.
these are kanjis
@@toshio-tamura yes, but some of those Kanji translated to the word "Korean" in Google Translate. It didn't pick up the language as Korean
I would need that radiation icon next to the delete button (I always "shift delete" 🙃)
Same,
This can be a nasty denial of service vulnerability packaged into a malware. It is not complete for the system, but some stuff won't work.
Kernel seems fine, but the application layer is broken.
Does this mean that viruses could break out of a virtual machine by infecting the clipboard if you enable shared clipboards / drag and drop in VMware?
Yeah, probably. There’s a lot of funky ways that you can break out of a sandbox, a lot of them are less tangible than using the clipboard as a plane ticket to the actual os
Yes, its a whole topic in cyber security called "Sandbox Evasion". Tho I've never really heard of it happening due to shared clipboard. They mostly exploit the virtual ethernet layer connecting the virtual machine to the host.
Yes, and same for remote desktop.
I can remember many years ago when you could only have one item in the clipboard, and it could only be plain text.
Yep, me too. I even remember when it was in Sanskrit before that.
I even remember when it used to store data in binary format only😍😍
@@NotSoMuchFrankly - The hard part was clearing the clipboard, you had to put fresh clay on it and bake it again.
I thought you couldn't fill up the clipboard because it should just clear the previous stuff. You learn somehing new everyday! Thanks!
The global atom table used for registered clipboard formats is also used for registered window messages critical for IPC, like the ever-important "TaskbarCreated" which tells apps to recreate their tray icons.
I really wish programs would return more useful error messages. If we got an 'your computer has run out of clipboard space, please reboot your computer' instead of the generic 'has run out of system resources', it'd be so much easier to troubleshoot.
Thats really interesting. I bet FlyTech will take a deeper look into this hahaha
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I knew about the different types of clipboard formats, but didn’t know you could register your own or do any of the crazy stuff in the video. I love stuff like this, great watch. Thanks!
Amazing and interesting video! I didn't even know that copy and pasting can break computers. I mean anything is bound to break a computer if you do it too many times. Everytime my phone died, I saw my clipboard was reset and I went, "Hey? Where did my stuff go?" Lol. I remember one time one of my old laptops was acting stupid and at one point it gave me an error and it said it couldn't fix it but when I restarted it, the message said something like, "You're computer almost broke" or something on Windows. It was probably the ASUS laptop 💻
One of the most interesting videos i've ever watched regarding windows. great work thiojoe!
Thank you, Joe🎉
Thanks for the fun video. I often try to break things too (I was a software test engineer for many years), but you are so much better at breaking things than I am!
This is a rare kind of video for you, and it's good!
Cudos for writing this stuff! such small little tools and executables, have made my life so much easier for YEARS in the professional industry. clipboard, explorer, registry, are the main targets mostly. Ooooh what you actually can do with just a small little smart tool.
I knew the clipboard had a bunch more going on behind the scenes but not to this level, thanks for this info Thio!
Had no idea the Windows Clipboard has a limit. As a daily Mac OS user I wonder if Mac OS has a similar limit and if so, how does Mac OS react?
What about the clipboard history feature?
Havent looked too much into that tbh
@@ThioJoe Good occasion for a followup video
@@ThioJoe
Can I safely uninstall CoPilot from my W10 22H2 computer without it causing any detrimental affects on other Windows functions?
When I recently moved from W8.1 to W10, it wasn't showing, but an update a few days ago ensconced it onto my Taskbar! I don't want it.
Thanks. EDIT - A simple YES or NO would be much appreciated. Thanks.
I always suspected that different data formats could be copied to the clipboard at the same time, but I never would have guessed how complex it really was under the hood.
I remember when you almost convinced me to wipe my xbox 360 cause it was actually secretly an xbox one in disguise and i just had to factory reset it to turn it into one. By god i was a stupid kid, good memories, glad to see you're still up and kicking
Thats for now the most surprising video i have seen on windows never in a million years i would have thought that the clickboard a thing you use to copy and paste thing can broke windows
Oh, wow.. this is a cool find.. I had no idea how much of windows was tied into the clipboard. I used to never clear my clipboard, bc I "might" need to reference that data again "one day."
I am a data hoarder, lol.
Anyway, thanks so much, TJ!
Ah yes, I love it when I open a file with *COPY*
the clipboard is very cool stuff. I've played around with this kind of thing once in the past (for probably a similar curiosity) but I never got as far as registering custom stuff. I was mostly curious to find out exactly how copying and pasting files worked, and it's a lot different than what one might expect!
Wow, I run into my clipboard not working multiple times a week. I always thought it was my file Explorer having issues but restarting file Explorer never fixed it. I did work out a system restart fixes it but good to know why this is happening haha
I've had the drag and drop disabled and paste greyed out issue before, thanks for explaining why it happened
iirc it might happen if pc is out of space
What programming language and framework did you use to develop your software?
In our office, the Label Printer software was breaking both the copy/paste AND the "save function on Office 365. Only solution was to close everything (loosing all of your work) and reopen the software.
Copy/pasting being one of the oldest, most basic function of Windows, I never expected it to be so fragile and complex.
Love your vids
Time to beat this limit
I think you're using a different light 💡
I lowered one of them lol
@@ThioJoe For someone watching all your vids, it's noticeable in half a second 😅
@@ThioJoe i always fear that, something bad can happen. and its the clipboards fault.
Why comments by members is a thing, youtube is that petty?
i switched to Linux years ago and i still watch your videos
I wonder if this could be an attack vector?
Now that I think about it isn't it already?
I think I heard one about people crashing a browser on mobile by filling up the clipboard. I might be confused though.
I mean maybe but I feel like there are probably easier ways to crash Windows with invalid system calls
@@hyper_lynx But like, an application could simply fill up the clipboard with registrations and wreak havoc, all without any special permissions.
I've had problems similar to the ones shown in the video, but never thought it could be the clipboard!
I have a terrible habit of using hibernation mode instead of doing a full shutdown - particularly when I'm doing video editing. Regularly save the project (using a "versioning" filename system) but some projects take so long to initially load that I leave the program running and just hibernate the PC...
Hi bro, your videos are awsome
3:30 Is that why you need to reboot Window$ all the time? Because it cannot register new clipboard types?
I believe if you would be to use Windows a lot without restarting or logging off, it might just happen and need a reboot
Soo probably its good idea to reboot pc often
New malware feature unlocked: registrating all Windows clipboard format possibles to prevent people for opening the taskmanager and killing the malware.
This is like the apps are office cubicles and you are in what they see is someone with a mountain of tasks ready to handout for them and they just disperse, lmao.
That is very interesting; I had no idea windows in the clipboard were tied so closely together.
Awesome stuff Joe! Imagine Explorer crashing, that never happens 🤣
Are you absolutely kidding for me i spent ages looking for a program like this
Is the clipboard type registry linked to each user, or - god forbid - a unique registry system wide? The latter would be really really bad.
The Clipboard is isolated per user session
Joe! Thanks for posting this video
So theoretically, if you open enough different programs on your computer, you will eventually run out of clipboard format IDs and your computer will stop working?
I've never had things break down to this extent, but something about the work I wind up doing in GIMP has a penchant to partially break clipboard functionality with some frequency, and it's incredibly frustrating. I can usually still copy and paste text, but wind up needing to reboot before I can copy and paste image data. No idea why, and have yet to find a way to reliably mitigate or fix the issue otherwise.
Damn, ThioJoe went full pro
Clipboard always breaks on me anyway
I love how the background looks with purple lights
Interesting video didn't know this about clipboard . So what does happen if the program doesn't registe with clipboard?
Hoorya for subtitles
Never would have thought that the clipboard would have such a limitation.
hey joe, question for you. for deleteme, what if you WANT your info on that site to save yourself time typing it in, like filling in a password, or filling out a job application, etc
You've just shown issues I've add, drag and drop, copy, windows explorer crashing.
I use clipboard board like a temp posted note, so my clipboard history (win10) always get full where it has to remove stuff that is too old.
Maybe that is what's causing my issues.
I've also noticed the clipboard history history reset when you screenshot and copy very large images, it seems to wipe them.
Me for most of the video: Ah yes very interesting
Me at 9:15: *terrified screaming*
Hello, can you help me? One time my PC froze and I wanted to clip info to the clipboard. Eventually the clipboard opens but only the border is visible and not one function works. I dunno how to fix it for a year now...
I feel like it should clear unused registration when a software tries to register a new entry.
Knowing this, it's kind of easy to make a malware that just fills up the clipboard registrations at boot and that probably won't be picked up by antivirus software.
It sounds like an oversight, since for other things like running out of RAM Windows will absolutely purge the RAM if needed.
That being said, I didn't know you could register custom formats for the clipboard, I tought it was either Text or Binary and it was up to the app to handle the data.
I always wondered about this, because different programs handle paste differently, for example uploading the file or just writing the filename. Very interesting video topic. I want to find out how it works on Linux and if there is av difference between X and Wayland
Tools programmer ThioJoe a true character development
Don't forget to clear your clipboard!!!
well, new DoS attack dropped
I have learnt SO MUCH ;D
How are you not aging bro i swear i saw you like 10 years ago like this
He hacked the system clock. Maybe using BIOS-ology?
Like he said, he uses sandboxes.
As a clipboard history user, curious on how much that adds to the madness lol
AW COME ON, HE BROKE OUR CLIPBOARD, GUESS WERE GETTING A NEW ONE
Recently on Windows 11, I’ve been noticing that I have been having clipboard copying issues on multiple computers. It’s been inconsistent when copying passwords, etc.
As programmer, I like that tool bro
i have had a problem with clipboard in the past where i have copy and pasted alot items (maybe 100) then it seems get stuck i.e. i will copy ABC then paste=ABC copy XYZ paste=ABC copy DEF paste=ABC i have to clear the clipboard for it start working correctly....i cannot duplicate this behavior it seems to be random...
The windows sand box is a pretty good program for when you just want to test some suspect programs ot files. It also didn't have shared clipboard function when I needed, in the past.
I hope Microsoft adds the option to edit some configuration about it. Like permanent storage for it. I know you can do it with some prompts, but it sucks.
10:38 the HDD experience
Never knew this, nice content
Now can you do the same but for notepad on win 11? Mine has been broken for months it freezes if I try and view/close the file so yeah it’s just stuck there can I can’t remove it lol
idk, that looks like a lot of problems I encounter. Would love to know the #9 command just to try. it clears the registration, too?
I MUST MEMORIZE!!
We started breaking copy and paste before GTA 6 somehow.
we copied the entire code of GTA 6 and pasted it into the operating system code
yes
we lived before GTA 6.
@@rchltmedia, WW III will start before gta 6.
Can yo try to see what is in the "start + v" dilog
See, it can show random data generated.
It would be cool to clear the clipboard data storage entirely, to free space and resources from the PC. Right?
Another exposé, where programmers assume that the clipboard is infinite; they do not gracefully handle the errors.
Can you please share the ClipboardFiller program?
THIOJOE ROOLZ!!!!!!
this explains why my computer crashes and wont let me paste when i try to change a file name
Theory: Clipboard has a limit
Practice: Said limit is rarely (if ever) seen
Theory+Practice: Actually reach the limit and see the consequences unfold.
I've done a lot of weird programing trying to make things do things that's they weird intended todo. I'm definitely aware of windows clipboard limit, there is also an issue where it can't keep up all the time and has to "think" it seems. (Regardless of how big or small the copied item or text is) As I'll clear the clip board history, copy something and then paste it and it will say there is nothing to paste, or it can't be pasted. But if I give it a few extra trys then it will go through. But mind you all happening within a few miliseconds as I'm running these actions through code. An error handler event just to spam windows paste function lol.
Fascinating!!
What if I write a script to register those random format and schedule it to run on restart😊
Pull out the linux usb drive
What about the windows+v? Does that still work?
I thought the clipboard only stored the last thing you copied to it (since that's the only thing you can paste, no?). How do you add thousands of items to the clipboard?
Not adding but registering types
@@SwissPGO
Yesterday, I discovered the SuperMSConfig tool which is apparently for W11. However, I managed to download it onto my W10 22H2 computer, although opening it took a bit of playing around.
What do you think of it, and can you tell me if it works okay on W10? Thank you.
@@EIRE55 I've not used it... and I'm no longer using windows 10: I upgraded to linux :-) but I still support windows machines as part of my job. Cheers,P.
@@SwissPGO
Thanks for your reply, anyway.
Stay safe and well, wherever you are.
@@EIRE55 Switzerland is pretty safe still. Apart from certain mountain areas where the effects of global warming can be seriously devastating for some villages where people lived for centuries and now need to be evacuated.
Thanks for the videos.
Can this be done from JavaScript in a web site? If so, this is a vulnerability since any malicious site can crash your computer by abusing the clipboard.
the 32 dislikes *info from return youtube dislikes* are probably from a bunch of microsoft employes lol
in high school i once crippled a school computer by copy pasting folders into them selves over and over again till windows broke they had to wipe the hard drive and reinstall windows.