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Windows 2000 and DOS - Right-Click Copy and Paste

SUMMARY: Enable easy right-click copying and pasting between CMD DOS consoles and other Windows 2000 applications.

To copy and paste text between DOS CMD windows and other Windows 2000 programs, you can use the right-mouse button to perform the actions.

To copy text, highlight the desired text in a Windows 2000 CMD window and press the right mouse button. This should immediately copy the text to the clipboard without prompting you for anything. If, instead, you see an Edit menu, you can select the "Copy" command to place the selected text in the clipboard. Or, bypass this menu for now on via this tip:

Open up a DOS CMD prompt, click on the "C:\" icon on the top-left of the window and choose "Properties". On the multi-tabbed dialog box that follows, select the "Options" tab. Near "Edit Options", uncheck "Insert Mode." Click the "OK" button to close the dialog box.

Now, when you highlight text with your mouse and press the right mouse button, Windows will place the text on the clipboard without prompting. Click the right mouse button without selecting text and Windows will paste the clipboard text on the DOS prompt. Easy, eh?