[darinpantley]

I used Win+R for many years until I read: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28598474

Now I use Notepad or Ctrl+Shift+v.

One advantage to using Notepad is that it reveals newlines in your paste data very clearly, so you can select a substring if needed.

[LocalH]

The Run box is safe, although not useful for multi-line content. That tweet (now deleted) was referring to the Start menu search box.

“You are correct. This traffic was not generated by typing text into the "run box", it was generated by typing text into the "start menu box". We are very sorry for the confusion this has caused.”