Cannot Copy Information from TechNet to Outlook Express

• Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional

SYMPTOMS

When you paste a few words (under 30 chars) from Microsoft TechNet into a new Outlook Express e-mail or news message, no words are pasted. If you try to paste more than 65 words into a new Outlook Express e-mail or news message, you may receive the following error message:

Msimn.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows.
You will need to restart the program.

An error log is being created.

RESOLUTION

To work around this issue, paste the information into Notepad, then copy the text from Notepad and paste it into the Outlook Express message.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

Additional query words: post

Keywords : kbenv kberrmsg outexw95 outexnt outexw98
Version : WINDOWS:2000
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbprb