Windows 10 multi clipboard
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There must be dozens of clipboard managers, and a lot of them are pretty likely to be an improvement over whatever offering ms puts up. I've been using Ditto[^] for a while, now. For me, its killer feature is that it preserves the clips through reboots (with a manually editable/transportable db), but it also does all the "standard" stuff that most clipboard managers do, e.g. file copy, formatting preservation, paste options (including case options and adding/removing line feeds), clip groups, quick dial, search, etc. Oh, and its pop-up/click-off-to-close window is easily resizeable and movable. I'm betting that the windows one only gives you a fraction of the functionality, at many times the footprint (I somehow don't think I'll be installing winio just to find out).
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In my novice days - mid-1980s, before Windows had become dominant on the desktop - I was working on an office automation suite. We introduced a clipboard mechanism with multiple clips, but the customers found it to complex in use. They were asking us to make something simpler, like what they had seen on PCs. So we added an "anonymous" clip where you didn't have to identify it, similar to the simplistic mechanism in Windows and other systems. After that, we never heard any customer ever refer to the multiclip mechanism. Users of today are certainly more sophisticated wrt. tool use than those of the 1980s. Still, I would personally continue to use the simplistic Ctrl-C Ctrl-V in 98% of the cases, rather than a more functional mechanism where I would have to choose. OK, there are still 2% left, so I do see the value of a multi clipboard. In a few special cases, that is.
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For ages, I've been annoyed that if I have to copy and paste two things over and over in code, it's complex. Why isn't there a clipboard memory? Turns out there is. Hit Windows-V and you will be asked to turn it on. It shows all your recent copies and you can click one to paste it
It took 5 tries before the window popped up asking me to turn it on. Very strange. But working now. Thanks for the tip - next challenge is to remember it!
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I was always using ClipX but unfortunately it doesn't work well on Win10. I've also checked all the Clipboard apps and none come close to ClipX usability... maybe it's time for me to write something similar.
I've used ClipX for years, including now on a fully-updated Windows 10 Pro. No problems at all. I'm using version 1.0.3.8. If you are using a different version, maybe give this one a go. If you can't find it, message me with an email address and I'll email it to you.
Mike
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They are stealing our sand??? Damn you Europeans. We should invent some global kind of tax for this injustice.
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As much as there was I figured yall were charging them. :)
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Pfft, DIGITAL.
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I've used ClipX for years, including now on a fully-updated Windows 10 Pro. No problems at all. I'm using version 1.0.3.8. If you are using a different version, maybe give this one a go. If you can't find it, message me with an email address and I'll email it to you.
Mike
I also have been using this version on multiple Win 10 systems with no trouble (I run it as admin so I can screenshot my Visual Studio IIS debug sessions).
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For ages, I've been annoyed that if I have to copy and paste two things over and over in code, it's complex. Why isn't there a clipboard memory? Turns out there is. Hit Windows-V and you will be asked to turn it on. It shows all your recent copies and you can click one to paste it
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And the VT-52 before that, yes, and it was magic.
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They are stealing our sand??? Damn you Europeans. We should invent some global kind of tax for this injustice.
My plan is to live forever ... so far so good
That's it, Global Sanding! :laugh:
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For ages, I've been annoyed that if I have to copy and paste two things over and over in code, it's complex. Why isn't there a clipboard memory? Turns out there is. Hit Windows-V and you will be asked to turn it on. It shows all your recent copies and you can click one to paste it
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They are stealing our sand??? Damn you Europeans. We should invent some global kind of tax for this injustice.
My plan is to live forever ... so far so good
DJ van Wyk wrote:
They are stealing our sand???
Hey, but it's being used for a good cause! ... The make beer glasses!
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Cool. I just turned my clipboard history on. I frequently cycle through two or three copy/paste cycles.
Me too
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It took 5 tries before the window popped up asking me to turn it on. Very strange. But working now. Thanks for the tip - next challenge is to remember it!
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For ages, I've been annoyed that if I have to copy and paste two things over and over in code, it's complex. Why isn't there a clipboard memory? Turns out there is. Hit Windows-V and you will be asked to turn it on. It shows all your recent copies and you can click one to paste it
Didn't know the Windows-V trick, but this starts clear every time you boot the OS so it's not really a great solution. I use Ditto (https://ditto-cp.sourceforge.io/) which maintains all the history and has many excellent 'get-you-out-of-jail' features that have saved my skin so many times. Once you get used to little things like this their absence on other machines is keenly felt.
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I've used ClipX for years, including now on a fully-updated Windows 10 Pro. No problems at all. I'm using version 1.0.3.8. If you are using a different version, maybe give this one a go. If you can't find it, message me with an email address and I'll email it to you.
Mike
Hi TBIM. I'm using ClipX 1.0.3.9 beta 7 x64 (Jul. 6th, 2008) and it happens occasionally that it stops receiving the clipboard data or it completely crashes. It worked perfectly in Win7, but it stopped in Win10. Anyway do you use 32bit 3.8 in 64 bit environment and everything works? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Edit: I've now uninstalled 3.9 and installed 32bit 3.8 and I'll see how it goes. Anyway does anybody know where the author disappeared? I have written him a few years back but there was no reply. BrW
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When I press "Windows+V" I get to see a window's title bar with the title "Clipboard" appearing right at the bottom of my screen and it just ain't moving! :( But good tip otherwise! :)
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For ages, I've been annoyed that if I have to copy and paste two things over and over in code, it's complex. Why isn't there a clipboard memory? Turns out there is. Hit Windows-V and you will be asked to turn it on. It shows all your recent copies and you can click one to paste it
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A little. I got MVP, so I tried to answer in the forums and got an email bitching about how I did it, so I stopped. Still poking around the lounge, it's pretty quiet.