What is Clipboard in computer fields

What is Clipboard in computer fields

The clipboard, also referred to as pasteboard, is a special location in your computer's memory that temporarily stores data that was cut or copied from a document. This data can then be pasted to a new location. The clipboard will hold its information until you cut or copy something else, or log out of the computer. For example, a user may copy information from a word processor and paste that information into an e-mail message.
Many operating systems include "clipboard viewers" that display what information is currently being stored in the clipboard. These utilities may also be used to configure the clipboard with permissions, or view the clipboard's history.

How do I open the clipboard?

Windows Vista, 7, 8, and 10 users
Unfortunately, Microsoft has decided to no longer included any clipboard viewer in Microsoft Windows Vista, 7, 8, and 10. To view the contents of the clipboard, you need to download a third-party utility or app.
Note
The command line clip command still works. See the command line section for further information.

Windows 2000 and XP users

Microsoft Windows 2000 and XP users may find it difficult to locate the clipboard because it was renamed to the Clipbook viewer. It can be located by opening Windows Explorer, opening the "Winnt" or "Windows" folder, then the "System32" folder. Find and double click the clipbrd.exe file.
Users can also click Start, Run, type clipbrd and press Enter to execute this program.

Windows 9x, ME, and NT users

Microsoft Windows 95, 98, NT 4.0, and ME come installed with a clipboard viewer that can be run by clicking Start, Programs, System Tools, and clicking Clipboard Viewer. The clipboard viewer is also executable through the clipbrd.exe file in the Windows directory.

Windows command line

The clip command allows you to redirect output from a Windows command line command to the Windows clipboard. See the clip command page for further information and examples on this command.

What is a clipboard?

A clipboard is a temporary storage area for data that the user wants to copy from one place to another. In a word processor application, for example, the user might want to cut text from one part of a document and paste it in another part of the document or somewhere else. When the user copies the selected content, it's stored in the clipboard buffer until it's pasted. Some operating systems, including Windows and Macintosh OSes, let the user copy content from one application to another.

What is clipboard history?

The clipboard is a "store" where the data you copy is placed before it is pasted into the target place. The windows clipboard can store only one element. So its contents is replaced every time you copy something, and you can not retrieve the data you've copied before. For example, if you copied some text and forgot to paste it, and then copied some other text, the previous one is lost forever. That is vastly inconvenient!
The clipboard history is a set of all data that you copied to the clipboard: texts in various formats (plain text, rtf, html), images, file lists.To get access to the clipboard history you should use a special software - clipboard manager. We recommend Clipdiary. It remembers everything you copy: plain text and text with formatting (rtf), html, pictures and files.

What can you do with the clipboard history?

Quickly copy data back to the clipboard.
Paste any clip from the history directly to the selected application.
Search for the necessary clip by its contents.
Find out what program the data was copied from.
Delete clips.