This is a great tip via Lifehacker and from a 3 year old blog post elsewhere.
When you get an error message in Windows, use Ctrl-C to copy it to the clipboard and then use your preferred pasting method to place the text somewhere else.
Example: Trying to close Notepad without saving
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Notepad
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The text in the Untitled file has changed.Do you want to save the changes?
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Yes No Cancel
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Yes, this is helpful to the typical geek who wants to check out particular information about an error or to keep a record of errors for future comparison, but there is more.
Teach this to your people!!!
I am tired of getting calls where someone says “I tried to do something, but it gave me an error message, what’s wrong?” Train them to copy & paste confusing error messages into an email or your help desk so that you can see it when they ask you about it.
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