Microsoft KB Archive/231652

= PRB: Paste Fails in the VC IDE After Installing NT 4.0 SP4 =

Article ID: 231652

Article Last Modified on 12/8/2003

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 4
 * Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition
 * Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0 Enterprise Edition
 * Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 Enterprise Edition
 * Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q231652



SYMPTOMS
After installing Service Pack 4 for NT 4.0 you may temporarily lose the Paste functionality of the Visual C++ editor. The copied text can be seen in the Clipboard when this problem occurs. This problem is intermittent.



CAUSE
This problem may be due to the changes in the heap manager allocation pattern after installing NT 4.0 Service Pack 4 (SP4).



RESOLUTION
You can add the Visual C++ executable, MSDEV.exe, to the Image File Execution Options list in the registry. See the directions in the Resolution section of the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

195009 Application Access Violation or Hang After Applying SP4

Adding MSDEV.exe to this list causes the SP4 heap manager to revert to SP3 and earlier allocation patterns for Visual C++. This has been shown to fix the paste problems some users experience.

Keywords: kbbug kbnoupdate kbide kbdevstudio kbprb KB231652

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