Open clipbrd.exe | Click on the Delete X | Click Yes to the prompt

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Clear Clipboard
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Do you want to clear the contents of the Clipboard?
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Yes No
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or...

To clear the contents of the Clipboard
In ClipBook Viewer, click the Window menu, and then click Clipboard.
On the Edit menu, click Delete.
Click Yes.
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...ar_how_cb.mspx

Or use David Candy's ClearClipboard.exe

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In news:%23HiIrDhEGHA.376@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl,
Ken Blake, MVP <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> hunted and pecked:
> 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?
>
>
> There's no way to clear the cflipboard, but there's also no *need* to
> clear the clipboard. If you don't want to use what's currently in the
> clipboard, just ignore it. The next time you cut or copy something to it,
> it will replace what's there.
>
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