Tutorial: Copy a dialog box text to clipboard on Windows 10 and 8.1
Solution 1: Use built-in Windows Function
Let’s take for example the error message “Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library” that pops on your screen unexpectedly. In this case, if you want to copy the message to a word document and save it for later troubleshooting do the steps below. [Window Title] Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library [Content] Runtime error! Program c:P… R6034 An application has made an attempt to load the C runtime library incorrectly. Please contact the application’s support team for more information. [OK]
Solution 2: Use a third-party tool
In case you want to copy more complex dialog box texts or other system messages, and you cannot do it, you can always consider a dedicated tool. SysExporter from Nirsoft is a magnificent portable tool that can help you with that. It will also allow you to copy the text inside list views, tree-views, list boxes, combo boxes, text-boxes. It will also allow you to drag and drop specific words and sentences from dialog boxes, very useful feature for specific errors. Have we mentioned that SysExtractor is portable and totally free? Now you can see how easy it is to copy a text from a dialog box just by pressing a few buttons. For any opinions on the matter don’t hesitate to write us below.
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