What's the first thing you do when you see a baffling error message in Windows? If you are anything like most users, they close it and call tech support and talk of some error message - (which doesn't really help the techy to get closer to problem). Sometimes the error messages are long-winded and contain lots of gibberish (which are a pain to write down before calling technical support) - but there is another way.
 
We found a little known feature that Microsoft forgot to tell anyone about: You can copy the text in error messages to the Windows Clipboard by pressing Ctrl + C (the keyboard short-cut for COPY to clipboard)
 
So the next time you get an indecipherable error message, just press Ctrl + C then open and Email or MS Word (or Notepad, WordPad etc.) and press Ctrl + V (the keyboard short-cut for PASTE from clipboard) or click Edit, Paste.
 
For example: Let's say you encounter this error message:

You would press Ctrl + C on your keyboard. (Nothing exciting happens except maybe a "beep")
 
Then press Ctrl + V (or Edit, Paste) into an email or Word Document etc.
 
You would get this:
 
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\\myserver
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\\myserver
The network path was not found.
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OK  
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Hope that helps.
 
It works with Windows 2000 and all later versions.