Emptying the Clipboard

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W2K empties the Clipboard on a reboot, and maybe on a cold boot. But
when I shut down and later boot up, I would by then have emptied my
clipboard extender utility anyway.

Is there a way to stop this on a reboot, so the contents are saved in
Clipboard?

ms
 
Since the clipboard is only Memory that would be kind of difficult. At
best you could save/write the contents to a file before the restart and
then open and copy the file contents after the system is back up.
 
ms said:
W2K empties the Clipboard on a reboot, and maybe on a cold boot. But
when I shut down and later boot up, I would by then have emptied my
clipboard extender utility anyway.

Is there a way to stop this on a reboot, so the contents are saved in
Clipboard?
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The reason I posted here is that W98SE does not empty the clipboard
(extender) on reboot, or even shutdown. So I wondered about W2K.

ms
 
ms said:
The reason I posted here is that W98SE does not empty the clipboard
(extender) on reboot, or even shutdown. So I wondered about W2K.
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I didn't know that and, in fact, I'm rather surprised.

Given that only the last copy operation is saved, it seems of limited
usefulness to maintain it through a shutdown and there is a downside:

Since AFAIK the clipboard is kept in RAM during the session, putting a
large amount of data there (say when processing a large graphic in a
graphic editor) can make the system very sluggish. If the graphics
program (or whatever) isn't set to clear the clipboard on exit, an
unsophisticated user may not realise what the problem is and attempt to
resolve it by a reboot .... which wouldn't solve anything and he's be
stuck with a slow system until he (unwittingly) did another copy
operation. Or took the machine to the repair shop.
 
The reason I posted here is that W98SE does not empty the clipboard
(extender) on reboot, or even shutdown. So I wondered about W2K.

ms
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Clipboard contents get saved temporarily to the RAM (volatile) and
naturally get cleared once the OS (whichever) gets shutdown or rebooted.
Probably the extender you mentioned doesn't save and only offers several
clips to paste while Windows is running. You can save the regularly used
contents either through Clipboard or a third-party app.

Through Windows Clipboard:
- Start/ Run/ clipbrd
- This will open the Clipboard Viewer with 2 sub-Windows: Clipboard and
the Local ClipBook.
- The Clipboard keeps replacing the contents with every Ctrl+X or
Ctrl+V, including the paths whenever files/folders are copied/moved.
- To Save contents permanently, click the Paste button to transfer to
the Local Clipbook, and Save as .CLP. You can store as many incl.
images, and later copy & transfer them from here to any application or
share across a network.

Among the many third-party apps (for text only), try Minipad
(www.nebulasoft.cn/index_en.html), that is a text editor with integrated
multi-clipboard, and saves everything cut & copied to a text file if
Watch clipboard is checked, besides other features.

To archive both text and images, EverNote (www.evernote.com) is most
ideal with Universal clipper & many other useful features.

Mohan...
 
Clipboard contents get saved temporarily to the RAM (volatile) and
naturally get cleared once the OS (whichever) gets shutdown or rebooted.
Probably the extender you mentioned doesn't save and only offers several
clips to paste while Windows is running. You can save the regularly used
contents either through Clipboard or a third-party app.

Through Windows Clipboard:
- Start/ Run/ clipbrd
- This will open the Clipboard Viewer with 2 sub-Windows: Clipboard and
the Local ClipBook.
- The Clipboard keeps replacing the contents with every Ctrl+X or
Ctrl+V, including the paths whenever files/folders are copied/moved.
- To Save contents permanently, click the Paste button to transfer to
the Local Clipbook, and Save as .CLP. You can store as many incl.
images, and later copy & transfer them from here to any application or
share across a network.

Among the many third-party apps (for text only), try Minipad
(www.nebulasoft.cn/index_en.html), that is a text editor with integrated
multi-clipboard, and saves everything cut & copied to a text file if
Watch clipboard is checked, besides other features.

To archive both text and images, EverNote (www.evernote.com) is most
ideal with Universal clipper & many other useful features.

Mohan...
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Thanks for the data, my issue remains due to my usage. I only save
text, like I will save the posts in this thread. In a typical day of
browsing I may save about 30 clips, so I normally take the time to
cut/paste transfer each of those clips into a final location before I
shutdown or reboot. For me, a clipboard extender is a necessity, and
the one I use is excellent, I recommend it. Yankee Clipper 3,
freeware: http://www.yankee-clipper.net/ - I only use it's History
function, it is trouble-free. In W2K, it is effected by reboot just
like Clipboard.

I just looked at Minipad, the website does not say how many clips it
saves, but at this point I will stay with Yankee Clipper.

Repeated, I have seen that W98 retains the contents of my extender
during shutdown, let alone reboot. So I now have a note hanging on the
W2K monitor- DON'T REBOOT. Maybe that will jog my senior memory.

ms
 
I didn't know that and, in fact, I'm rather surprised.

Given that only the last copy operation is saved, it seems of limited
usefulness to maintain it through a shutdown and there is a downside:

Since AFAIK the clipboard is kept in RAM during the session, putting a
large amount of data there (say when processing a large graphic in a
graphic editor) can make the system very sluggish. If the graphics
program (or whatever) isn't set to clear the clipboard on exit, an
unsophisticated user may not realise what the problem is and attempt to
resolve it by a reboot .... which wouldn't solve anything and he's be
stuck with a slow system until he (unwittingly) did another copy
operation. Or took the machine to the repair shop.
Click to expand...

Thanks, Sid. as I said in my other reply, I only save text, so my
Clipboard use never effects my computer, even is one W98 machine that
always uses every bit of it's RAM. For my use, Windows 98SE has some
advantages still, but W2K has a lot more stablity, Those 2 are my
favorites.

ms
 
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