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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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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.
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.
I HAVE ONLY USED SCREENSHOT ONCE AND WOULD LIKE TO FIND IT. HOW DO I DO THAT?
In order to view your Clipboard History or allow multiple entries to be stored in it you need to turn that feature on.
Click on Start, then Settings, then System, scroll down and look for Clipboard in left hand column, click it and then click to turn Clipboard History on.
Now, to clip all or part of the screen, press the Windows key, Shift key, and s at the same time.
If you forget the above key combination, you can google it or, go to Windows Accessories in the Start Menu and click on Snipping Tool.
To see what you just clipped, press the Windows key and v at the same time, then left click the entry to re-copy it for pasting or whatever.
For your own security, it's useful to clear your clipboard every so often - it stores about 4MB of text.
If you want to keep an entry in your Clipboard and prevent it from being cleared, click on the dots to the right of the entry then click Pin.
Hit the windows and V key
I HAVE ONLY USED SCREENSHOT ONCE AND WOULD LIKE TO FIND IT. HOW DO I DO THAT?
Search for "snipping tool" in the start menu, or win+shift+s
