Left click your mouse at the start of the text you want, holding the left key down drag along all the text required, this should then highlight the required text.
Then right click inthe highlited area and select copy, alternately you can hold down the control button on your keyboard and press the C key and this will also copy.
To paste, right click and select paste or control V and that will insert the text.
Hope this makes sense.

Hi Dreamcaster,
This may seem obvious but once you have copied the text into wordpad or similar you have created a file and you need to save it somewhere for future use.
Click File > Save as >  then your computer will diaplay a window for you to save it to.
Name your file as something appropriate .
Navigate to the folder that you want to save it to and then click save.
You can also save photos or images  (on web pages for example) the same way.
Put the cursor over the image > right click on the image and select save picture.
Then follow the steps to save to an appropriate place on your computer when you see the save window.

Cheers
Doug

Hi dreamchaser.

All of the above advice is good. Position the cursor at the beginning of the desired text and depress the left mouse button. Hold the button down whilst draggin the cursor to the end of the desired text and then release. Then right-click on the selected area and choose copy (or alternatively use the Ctrl+C keypress combination to copy).

Pasting it into a document you've created using Wordpad, Notepad or some other word processing program allows you to save it as a file on your hard drive, thumb drive or whatever.



But if all you really wanted to do was print out a hardcopy of the selected text, rather than retaining it on your machine also for future reference, you can do that quite easily without creating a document at all.

Your web browser (Internet Explorer, or Firefox, or whichever other browser you use) will have a 'Print' control, either in the menues or on a toolbar icon. With the desired text selected as above, choose that control.

A dialogue box for your printer should appear then. Rather than immediately clicking OK you can instead use the provided facilities to chose precisely what is to be printed. Depending upon your printer, that'll be on a tab or accessed via a 'Preferences' button. Don't be frightened to have a look and find it. The alternatives usually presented are 'Page', 'Document' and 'Selection'. If you choose the 'Selection' option before you click through the OK buttons to send it to the printer you'll end up with a sheet of paper with just the selected text printed on it.


Cheers.

Hi Catweazle,

Jude

Theres a little program called Clipmate. If you want it I can send it to you. If so I will contact you on your whiteboard

Popeye

i paid about 70 dollars in a store for an external hard drive holds music pics the lot its realy good
the memory hold is something i will never need its pretty big .

but they are the go can plug them into any persons computer to view your pics etc so its a bonza

Thanks Marie.
Cheers,
xina.

Beams wrote:

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I have asked various "computer people" about these two memory sticks. None of them were able to tell me why or to retrieve my files.

Now I keep them only as transporters. I make sure I have a copy of their contents somewhere else as well.

Marie

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USB sticks and memory cards are about the least 'safe' medium there is for permanent storage of your data.  It's pleasing to hear that you now use them only for temporary storage/transporting files from one machine to another, because that is really the only suitable purpose they serve.  Data should never be stored permanently on them.

They frequently 'fail' because power is carried to them via the same interface that data is.  They're volatile to tiny fluctuations in power delivery, especially when being removed/disconnected.

The 'good news' is that, when they 'fail', it's usually the 'format' which gets lost rather than the data files themselves.  The files will often still be there, but the computer cannot read them because the 'street directory' to their locations has been scrambled.  If you pop a USB stick in the 'pooter  and get a message that it's unreadable you should disconnect it and refrain from further use until you have 'Data Recovery' software installed and ready to use with it.  If instead you format and reuse the thing, you'll destroy your chances of recovering your stuff.

There are numerous freeware and commercial file recovery programs available.  Amongst them:

http://www.piriform.com/recuva
http://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-software.htm
http://www.easeus.com/datarecoverywizard/
http://www.handyrecovery.com/

Bear in mind that, if a 'drive' has suffered actual physical or electronic damage it can be impossible to recover data from it. Quality professional data recovery services can sometimes recover data from a hard drive which has suffered mechanical failure, by removing the platters from it, placing them in the shell of an identical drive, and then perhaps even using sophisticated equipment to locate and lift the data off it. But such services can be very expensive, costing anything up into the thousands of dollars. Similar results can be obtained (sometimes) with other drive types also.

But if, as is so often the case, the thing has simply been 'zapped' and had its partition table and/or file directory table scrambled, the data recovery can potentially be something which can even be done at home.

That's not actually a "totally safe" approach, Popeye. That hack can lead to duplicate right-click context menu items being presented, and can also prohibit the shortcut from being 'pinned' to the Taskbar or Start Menu.

A better solution can be found here:


http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/01/31/workaround-to-remove-shortcut-arrow-make-transparent-in-windows-7-yet-can-pin-to-taskbar-or-start-menu/



-- Edited by Catweazle on Thursday 18th of February 2010 10:48:21 AM

With the USB drive inserted, right-click on the 'Computer' entry on the Start Menu and then choose 'Manage'. That brings up the Computer Management Console, and when you see it check in the pane at left and select 'Disk Management' from the Storage section.

After the Management Console has scanned for drives check to see if an entry for the USB drive is present. It may appear as an unpartitioned or unformatted drive. If so, there's a chance of data recovery.

'Computer' and/or 'Explorer' themselves won't be able to 'see' the drive if it isn't formatted and thus allocated a drive letter by the system. And if the format has been zapped and corrupted...

-- Edited by Catweazle on Thursday 18th of February 2010 11:00:29 AM

Beams, if that USB drive's presence isn't even being detected by the system, and other 'known working' USB connected drives are working, I don't hold much hope of success.

Neither do I Catweazle, sob. . .sob...  It has been dead for a while, but hope springs eternal and I had imagined it doing a Lazarus act on me.  No such luck.  Still you have taught me much today and others may also benefit from your expertise.  So that is your good deed for the day.

Hi there Catweazle,