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Clipboard what alternatives are there

The Windows XP Clipboard while being a useful tool has it’s limitations.

If you use it a lot, to copy and paste text or images from one place to another, you may occasionally forget what’s in the Clipboard and run the risk of loosing it if you need to copy something else.

The solution is to use a hidden utility called the Clipboard Viewer

Which can be activated by:‐

Start > Run In the box type without the quotes “ Clipbrd.exe “

You can make it more accessible by creating a desktop shortcut.

Start by right‐clicking on the desktop,

Select New then Shortcut.

In the Location box type the following: ‐

‘C:WINDOWS\system32\clipbrd.exe’ (again no quotes),

Click Next and give it a name then Finish..

ClipBook Viewer review

When you cut or copy information from a program, it is moved to the Clipboard and remains there until you clear the Clipboard, or until you cut or copy another piece of information which exceeds the Clipboard limit.

The Clipboard window in ClipBook Viewer shows the contents of the Clipboard.

You can paste the information from the Clipboard into any file as often as you like.

However, the information is only stored on the Clipboard temporarily.

Using ClipBook Viewer, you can cut or copy information from another program and store it in a page that you can name, save, use again, and share with others.

You can share ClipBook pages with others who have ClipBook Viewer installed on their computers, and they can share their ClipBook pages with you.

You can also save the contents of the Clipboard to an individual Clipboard file instead of a ClipBook page.

These files generally have the extension .clp and cannot be shared with others.

The Clipboard can store text in different formats, such as the:‐

Text character set (used by most Windows‐based programs),

OEM Text format (used by MS‐DOS‐based programs),

Unicode character set (a superset of all of the major scripts used in the world).

The View menu gives you the ability to see your data in various formats