I have Windows XP

I like to copy and paste A LOT of different things. I have used a computer for 22 years and NEVER had this problem before except in the last week or two.

Example. If I have an existing Word document and there is a SPECIFIC sentence or paragraph I want to copy/paste somewhere else, THE CURSOR DRIVES ME CRAZY! It will NOT let me highlight EXACTLY what I want. It jumps all over the place and messes up my word document by jumbling the words around. I can highlight a whole sentence but then without warning it cuts half of what I want to copy/paste into another part of the original document. It lets me highlight a paragraph and when I lift the cursor off to click copy, the highlighted area disappears and I cannot copy to paste.

I like to visit www.gretawire.com which is a FOX news blog site. When I see something I want to respond back to, I TRY to copy and paste the person's name/date of comment and mamby the first 2 sentences AND THE CURSOR BOUNCES EVERYWHERE. I can highlight but as soon as I try to paste the highlight goes away. I have been cutting/pasting for YEARS and this is NOT rocket science but I CANNOT DO IT NOW.

SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT IS WRONG?

Almost forgot, I KEPT GETTING MICROSOFT ERROR messages and my computer has been slower than usual so I:

1. Went into My Computer and searched for all temp files *.tmp,*.chk,~*.* and was surprised at the number but all deleted now.

2. I went to ccClean and updated all the obsolete programs including the newest Firefox.

3. Purchased this product to fix my registry errors SPEED did noticeably increase.

Don't know what else to do. SUGGESTIONS PLEASE? Classes start 24 Aug and when I am researching and cutting/pasting, I don't want my cursor all over the map.

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Try a different mouse.

I am having the worst time cutting and pasting since I updated to Outlook 2010. Any suggestions?

I am having the worst time cutting and pasting since I updated to Outlook 2010. Any suggestions?

since outlook is a purchased piece of software ,contact Microsoft and tell them your/there outlook 2010 update fudged up you computer

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