How to paste highlighted text on mouse wheel click?

I've been dual booting various flavors of Windows and Linux for a long time and there is one Linux feature that I really miss in Windows: when you highlight almost any text with the mouse, you can then paste this text by clicking with the mouse wheel. It appears to work with any mouse (several Logitech, Targus, etc.) and with most versions of Linux, but I have not been able to find how to make this happen with XP, Vista or Windows 7 (I'm currently using the latter).

The reason it is useful is that it works even in places where CTRL-C CTRL-V do not (like an ssh terminal). When working from Windows, I often end up needing to transcribe stuff (i.e. literally type what I see on the screen) whereas in Linux it's a copy-paste operation. Does anyone know how to make this happen in Windows? Or another way to copy-paste from something like a Putty terminal?

 

Yes, it's not hardware-dependent, so long as your mouse has a middle mouse button it "just works". This is called the X PRIMARY selection.

There's "True X-Mouse Gizmo" for Windows, but I can't say anything about it as I haven't tried it.

Have you tried Control+Insert for copy and Shift+insert for paste as specified in the IBM Common User Access standard?

 

Some device's native software allow this. Otherwise, it should not be hard to google up some software that will enable this functionality.

 

I just tried it and, despite being written for XP and last updated in 2005, it appears to work as advertised on 64-bit Windows 7. Thanks!

No, I didn't know about this at all -- but it also works (although it's somewhat clumsier). Thanks again.