How to see clipboard history

Question

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!

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

Yes!  Provide me access to the clipboard history!  Its laughable this feature isn't included.  It should have been solved when Windows XP was popular.

Answer 4

Hopefully Microsoft never changes this, as they did since first Windows versions, decades ago.

This is equivalent to having a password sniffer.

Third party apps are made for this and let users expose their security as they wish

Answer 5

Hi Gary,

I was disappointed just like you and found this thread. I modified a document online for over an hour, copied it just in case, clicked Save, and then copied the document again only to find out that it didn't actually save. I had therefore overwritten what I copied before saving it, and was quite infuriated that I had to start over because my changes were not saved. Anyway, I was trying to find a clipboard within Microsoft that will save multiple copies, but there isn't one and I don't want to download an app. But actually, I already have downloaded one! I had Microsoft Word open in the background and opened the clipboard within it. Then when I copied my document online, a little notification popped up near the taskbar that said "5 of 24 - Clipboard. Item Copied." So I went to Word and of course, there they were: my five previous copies. So there you go; you can have the clipboard opened in Word and in the background and it will save up to 24 copies for retrieval!

Hope this helps!

Zach