clearing the clipboard

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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raymond

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?

You might try 'start>run> then type clipbrd in the run box. This will show
the contents of the clip board which you can delete.

No. Why are you even thinking about it. Why did you need to clear the clipboard. Pasting doesn't clear it. Doesn't touch it, just copies part of it.

If it was a file it is just the location on the clipboard.

> so I was stuck with something on the Clipboard I couldn't paste

So what? How does this affect anything.
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"raymond" <raymond@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:9DC78AEB-582E-4005-859E-8E791824B41C@microsoft.com...
> 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?
> --
> raymond

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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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?

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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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

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

---------------------------
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.
>
> --
> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
> Please reply to the newsgroup

That large data thingy message is from Office. Office doesnt put anything on the clipboard (except a pointer to itself) unless you exit office. Then it asks if it should replace the link to itself as a running program with the actual data.

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"Bill Martin" <wylie@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:eWEPTZhEGHA.3000@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> 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?
> ------------------------
>
> 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