Copy Message Box Text To Clipboard

Ever get a error message and need to write it down...? Particular one with an obscure error number like 0x80040e09? We need that error numbers to find solutions for that errors. Since the text is presented in a static text box, there is no way to select all or a portion of the text. Since Windows 2000, you can copy the entire contents of a message box to the clipboard by pressing CTRL+C.

      Copy message box text to clipboard.

Foobar Example

Wonder..!? Test this:
1. Goto Start menu and choose “Run...“.
2. Then type in something that doesn't exist. (, such as “foobar“ and p)
3. Press Enter or OK.
4. You'll get a message box dialog that says “Windows cannot find 'foobar'.....“
    We didn't want to type that error message manually.
5. Now Press CTRL+C, the text of the message will be copied to the clipboard.
6. Just paste it into notepad, it'll look like this:

      Copy message box text to clipboard.

Error message in your notepad.

Similarly, You can copy various kind of the error messages thrown by your system.

      Copy message box text to clipboard.

Error message by windows.

-- COPY and Paste --

      Copy message box text to clipboard.

Error message in your notepad.

And, this only works for message boxes. Many dialog boxes are shown by applications. Those are generated and handled by the application. Only when an application asks Windows to display a message box will this shortcut work. For example, Microsoft Word displays some dialogs that are appear like message boxes, but they are not windows message box.