What about Clipboard viewer?

Start, Run 'clipbrd'
Then use the Edit, Delete command.

Does that work?

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Gary Tsang
Microsoft MVP - Windows XP Shell/User
http://www.microsoft.com/mvp


"Jeff Richardson" <JeffRichardson@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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> We use Windows XP workstations to connect to a number of remote win2k
> servers, every month we run checks on the servers which mean we need to
> cut /
> paste data from log files, event logs etc, after so long we find ourselves
> unable to cut / paste any more data, this happens on every XP station,
> we've
> tried clearing the clipboard but even after that when we copy / paste it
> pastes either nothing or the previously copied data, not the new data.
> Are
> there any command line utils or ms utils that can purge all clipboard
> data.
>
> My pc has photoshop isntalled and if I use the purge memory option in that
> I
> can then cut/copy & paste again, obviously we can't go round and install
> this
> on every other pc and we are looking for a way of doing this via XP
> interface
> of cmd line if possible
>
> Thanks