The Windows Clipboard has the severe limitation of being only able to store one item at a time in it. Copying a second item inevitably removes the first from the clipboard to make room for it.
ArcClip is a free Windows clipboard software replacement that remembers the last 50 text items by default that have been copied to the Windows clipboard. The options contain various settings to change that figure and the limitation to only accept text so that non-text items are also accepted and remembered.
The software program will automatically store items that are copied to the Windows clipboard with the means to access them using a hotkey combination (default is [Ctrl Shift Z].
ArsClip has several other advantages over the default clipboard program in Windows. It will by default remember items at the next system startup, provide options to process text that gets copied to the clipboard, to paste all items at once and to store permanent items.
ArsClip uses a very reasonable 6-8 Megabytes of computer memory while running depending on the amount and size of the items currently stored in the Windows Clipboard.
We already covered similar applications like the Windows clipboard manager Xneat in the past.
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i’ve tried virtually every app of this type including this one. some are good, some are ridiculous, but for me nothing is better than yankee clipper, now known as yc3.
if you find this type of app indespensible as i do, be sure to give yc3 consideration
http://www.intelexual.com/products/YC3/
Not so good for bitmap clipping. Too many options means too complicated to me. Suggest to use “ClipX” instead.
http://www.bluemars.org/clipx/
Of course, KDE has Klipper built in, which does all this and more. Free and included with your favorite KDE-based Linux distro.
Nice. I would also recommend reducing the number of options. Permanent Items is a handy feature. Why doesn’t it come with an installer?
I also use ClipX.
Besides being very simple, you can tune it with the “sticky notes” extension, wish will let you have some permanent clips always ready to be pasted.
Has Microsoft fixed their abysmal clipboard yet in Win7?
I’ve tried a bunch of clipboard extenders over the years but can’t find anything that I find as comfortable use as Clipmate (www.thornsoft.com). It’s not free though.
The clips are kept in a SQL dB and I use it as a sort of personal dB with about 22mb of clips stored. It has robust search capabilities and clip editing also.
LOL, clipX uses 480 KB of memory
I’ve tried several of these and I always end up back with Ditto.