On the web you can most of the time select text. You can at least inspect the element and copy the text that way. But in GUI programs very often you cant. There

On the web you can most of the time select text. You can at least inspect the element and copy the text that way. But in GUI programs very often you cant. There are these labels that cant be selected or copied. Especially frustrating for error messages. In e.g. KDE you actually can copy error messages! So that is great! I was told that under Windows you can do it simply by pressing Ctrl+C when the message box is open. That isn't very discoverable. Anyone know if that was always possible in Windows? Last I used was XP. Also reminds me of that Jonathan Blow video where he fights the Visual Studio debugger and can't copy a value.