Windows Clipboard History

[koolkat]

You’re all familiar with Copy & Paste. You either use the right click menu or you use Ctrl+C to Copy and Ctrl+V to paste. (i.e. hold down Ctrl while you press C and hold down Ctrl while you press V).

The last thing you copied gets remembered, so you can keep on pasting it until you copy something else. Which is good, but also bad - because it erased the thing you copied previously.

Sometimes you will find that forgetting all the stuff you copied previously is quite annoying - and you want it back.

The answer to this is Windows Clipboard History. But first you have to activate it:

Start > Settings > System > Clipboard, and turn on the toggle under Clipboard history.

Once you've done that then Ctrl+C to Copy and Ctrl+V to paste behave normally - as they did before.

But you now have the option to select your previous copied items. To do this press the Windows key + V.

A little dialogue box will pop up showing all the things you copied recently, you just click on the one you want from the list to select it.

Note that Ctrl+V now pastes the last thing you chose from the list - not the last thing you copied.

If you hover over a copied item in the list (don't click) you'll notice the 3 small dots - top right.

This gives you a short menu with 3 items.

You can delete the individual item, you can delete all items or you can pin the item.

Pinning the item means that it is still there after you restart your PC.