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Q231652: PRB: Paste Fails in the VC IDE After Installing NT 4.0 SP4

Article: Q231652
Product(s): Microsoft C Compiler
Version(s): 4.0 SP4,5.0,6.0
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): kbEditor kbide kbOSWinNT400bug kbVC500bug kbVC600bug kbVisID100 kbVJ100 kbVJ110 kbVS97
Last Modified: 11-JUN-2002

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Windows NT Server version 4.0 SP4 
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation version 4.0 SP4 
- Microsoft Visual C++, 32-bit Enterprise Edition, versions 5.0, 6.0 
- Microsoft Visual C++, 32-bit Professional Edition, versions 5.0, 6.0 
- Microsoft Visual C++, 32-bit Learning Edition, version 6.0 
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SYMPTOMS
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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
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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:

  Q195009 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.

Additional query words:

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Keywords          : kbEditor kbide kbOSWinNT400bug kbVC500bug kbVC600bug kbVisID100 kbVJ100 kbVJ110 kbVS97 kbDevStudio MSGRAPH kbGrpDSTools kbNoUpdate 
Technology        : kbVCsearch kbWinNTsearch kbWinNTWsearch kbWinNTW400search kbWinNT400search kbWinNTW400sp4 kbWinNTSsearch kbWinNTS400sp4 kbWinNTS400search kbAudDeveloper kbVC500 kbVC600 kbVC32bitSearch kbVC500Search
Version           : :4.0 SP4,5.0,6.0
Issue type        : kbprb

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