Pasting doesn't clear the clipboard.
Cutting something else is the usual way to replace the contents,
though there are applications you can use to clear it.
I have never seen the need myself, so I haven't used this:
ClipClear http://www.moonsoftware.com/freeware.asp

....Alan
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Alan Edwards, MS MVP Windows - Internet Explorer
http://dts-l.org/index.html

On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 02:38:04 -0800, "raymond"
<raymond@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>After 'cutting', is there a way to clear the Clipboard other than pasting?
>The question arose because I 'cut' something on a CD using Windows Explorer.
>Of course, I couldn't paste it, because you can't 'cut' something this way
>from a CD, so I was stuck with something on the Clipboard I couldn't paste.
>To clear the Clipboard, I 'cut' something I could paste and pasted it. This
>is mildly onerous.
>
>Is there a hot key or something like that you could use to clear the
>Clipboard instead?