I remember clear as a bell on old Windows 98 and 2000 systems being able to hit Control-A when I was in a text box and having it select all the text.
The two places I did this most often was Internet Explorer’s url area, and the Start / Run… command entry area.
However, on XP, this short cut seems to have silently disappeared. WHY?
Pick a non-Microsoft application, like FireFox. It works there.
If anyone happens to know how to re-enable Control-A in an input field, I’d really like to know how. If anyone happens to know why it was removed, I’d really like to know that more.