raymond 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?
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In my limited experience the clipboard works in one of two ways:

1) Other people have noted that it's only storing a link to the data on disk so
you don't care about it anyhow, or

2) If it is storing a large amount of info, XP badgers me to ask if I want to
keep it or purge it. If I've copied a large amount of data from within a file
for example -- rather than the whole file.

Basically I wouldn't worry about it. If it's a lot of data XP will ask what you
want done, and if it's not you don't need to delete it anyhow.

Good luck...

Bill