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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).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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That's pretty cool. I was about to hunt for/write something, that's how I dug around and found the built in one
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You're absolutely right, the Windows one is uber-basic but still a massive step-up for anyone who's never used a clipboard manager before.
I've been loving Clipboard Help and Spell for years.
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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.
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Sign me up as a beta tester (if I still have any windows machines, by that time).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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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
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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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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?
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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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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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I was excited to read this post until I re-read the second word in the title. 
/ravi
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I tried to stick to Windows 7, but SQL Server forced me to upgrade.......
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Very cool! Other devs here use Ditto.
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Win-V has no effect on my PC. Maybe it depends on the regional settings.
The Settings panel "Find a setting" finds nothing when I specify "clipboard".
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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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I admit, I turned the setting on first, but I was told it would just ask you
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Cool. I just turned my clipboard history on. I frequently cycle through two or three copy/paste cycles.
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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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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.
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Question - when I accidentally type in the code window during debugging and VS says I have to 'edit' or 'continue', how do those options differ and why can't I EVER keep debugging instead of stopping and starting again?
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When you find out, let me know. 
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When I install a new PC, I always install Chrome.
When I install Visual Studio, I always disable Edit&Continue.
I'd rather be phishing!
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