Thursday, February 10, 2011

How To view clipboard data

How To View & Manage Clipboard In Windows 7 & Vista.

When you copy or cut or move data, it is held temporarily in an invisible portion of memory. This is called as the ClipBoard. Windows XP had clipbrd.exe referred to as the Clipboard Viewer or the ClipBook Viewer, which could be used to see what was saved on your clipboard. If you try to search for this exe file in Vista or 7, you will be unable to find clipbrd.exe.

In XP this file was situated in C:\Windows\System32\clipbrd.exe. It is now missing as a part of the Vista installation. You can try to copy it from an XP installation, if you have access to it, and paste it in your Vista/7, System32 folder. In most cases this is know to work.

But if it does not or if you are confronted with a message of sorts : Entry Point Not Found, then you may try to run it in XP/SP2 compatibility mode.
If it still does not help, I'd suggest you download this freeware application Clipboard Viewer.
ClipViewer
This application allows you to look inside your Windows clipboard.

If you really need a more advanced tool to Manage your Windows Clipboard, you may use freeware ClipMagic.
ClipMagic
ClipMagic is a powerful Clipboard Extender and Information Manager for storing Images and Text, either automatically or manually in a categorized format, with details of the URL if the text is from an Internet site. It lets you edit, merge and manage your clips.
Incidentally, Clip.exe is a different file, which is a part of Microsoft Word/Office Clip Organizer. It is a cmd command. And rdpclip.exe is the main executable for File Copy, which allows you to copy and paste between server and client. Vista's Snipping Tool may also be considered as a variation of sorts. It lets you copy any portion of any screen, make notes and then copy it to the Clipboard as a graphic, save it as a graphics or an html file and/or send it by email. But you cannot view the clipboard with it.

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