How to see clipboard history

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Anonymous
2017-10-30T05:49:51+00:00

I was coding quite a bit the other day, and go loads done. I ended up copying it, and planned on pasting it, but completely forgot. Now I've got other things copied. I'd like to know if there's a way to view my old clipboard history? Are there any apps that can see everything I've already copied BEFORE downloading it? Or is there a way to do it with Windows? Please help!

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Anonymous
2019-03-18T11:04:28+00:00

As Allan Mej mentioned Clipboard content is overwritten.

However, last year I think, MS released a new feature in Win 10 where multiple items can be saved in Clipboard history but one needs to turn it on first.

Go to Settings -> System -> (Scroll down to) Clipboard -> then turn "Clipboard history" on.

To view "Clipboard history" contents, press the Windows key + V.

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Anonymous
2017-10-30T09:48:15+00:00

Hi Garry,

Upon copying something, the previous clipboard content is always overwritten. This means that there is always no history saved on the clipboard. You can use third-party applications which record your clipboard history, but you cannot recover your clipboard history prior to the installation of that app.

Should you have more concerns, feel free to post.

Regards.

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-12-12T17:14:00+00:00

    Thank you very much. I will reference this in the future as there has been many times I wish I could have done so!

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-01-21T19:56:09+00:00

    I found a picture but have no clipboard to go to

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-01-22T13:04:28+00:00

    Hello there!

    I copy and paste thousands of times and need the clipboard for reference especially on my mobile phone. Nothing in this thread worked for me as I have previously copied a paragraph and thought I lost it.  My internet temporarily went out so I started on another document copying phrases and pasting and then I realized that I typed that paragraph earlier. When I pasted - it only would paste the last three letter phrase I used.

    So, googling this I saw where someone mentioned MS Word and it dawned on me that there is a clipboard built in there. I open MS Word, go to the clipboard section and ... wola! The last 24 words, phrases and paragraphs I copied are listed there. 

    I will just stick to using MS Word for my clipboard since I always leave it open anyway.

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