Windows 10 – How to Copy Current Window to Clipboard

Use CopyFilenames

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Copy Filenames to Clipboard Utility

Windows XP has no way to copy a list of filenames to the clipboard (this has changed in later versions of Windows, starting with Vista). A Microsoft Knowledge Base article suggests writing a small *.bat file that runs the DIR command, collects its output into a file, prints that file, then deletes it. This may be convenient some times, but it would be more useful to be able to select a list of files, and have the names of them put on the clipboard. Then you could paste them wherever you needed them.

So here's a utility to do that. You have to do a bit of work yourself - but not much - to install it. Here are the instructions:

1. Download the executable. It's only 20 KB, so it should take only seconds even if you're using dial-up access. Save it wherever you want it to reside on your system.

2. Create a Shortcut in "Go To"

   1. Go to the "Send To" folder under your name in \Windows\Profiles in Windows Explorer (or maybe XP Home puts that directory under the Settings folder, I can't remember).
   2. Right-click in the right-hand pane, where the filenames are. Select "New|Shortcut".
   3. The "Create Shortcut" wizard will appear. On the first page, type in the path to the executable, or use the "Browse..." button to find it. Click ""Next".
   4. On the second page, type in a name for your new menu option. I used "File Names to Clipboard", but pick whatever will be meaningful to you. Click "Finish"

That's it; you've got it installed. Now select one or more files, right-click, and move your mouse pointer to "Send To". A submenu will appear which will include your new command. Choose that command, and a list of the files you've selected, sorted in ascending order, will be on the clipboard.

Source: http://members.cox.net/slatteryt/FNtoClip.html

I had a similar issue. It seems that what caused it for me was trying to customize explorer using command line. I ended up with the copy/move crash, and open-in-new-window issue.

This is the command that broke things for me:

%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /e,/root,::{450d8fba-ad25-11d0-98a8-0800361b1103}

I chanced upon this case, and it seems that resetting folder options in the registry might keep you from having to do a system restore, or recreating the user. Here's the related KB.

I ended up only having to delete and recreate BagMRU, and Bags (I compared my registry before and after corruption for differences, I also compared to the MS case).

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\BagMRU]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags]

There were more differences, but this was the first I tried and it solved at least the open-in-new-window issue. I wasn't experiencing the crashing anymore because I had done a system restore.