Method 3: Clear Specific Item in Clipboard History When the “Clipboard history” feature is turned on, you can click the “ Clear” button to manually clear all history items from the clipboard. In this case, only the last item you copied into the clipboard will be saved. On the right pane, you can turn off the “ Clipboard history” toggle switch to prevent Windows clipboard from saving multiple items.
Open the Settings app and navigate to System -> Clipboard. Method 2: Clear All Clipboard History Data from Settings App This method could also be used to clear clipboard history in Windows 8, 7, Vista. This command will add an empty item to the clipboard history so you then can’t paste anything anywhere. Press the Windows key + R to open the Run box, then type cmd /c “echo off | clip” and hit Enter. Method 1: Add An Empty Item to Clipboard History In this tutorial we’ll show you different ways to clear clipboard history in Windows 10.
Clipboard works as a temporary repository for data during copy-and-paste operations. When you use Ctrl + C to copy text, images or other information in Windows, your data will be stored in the clipboard temporarily so you can then paste it somewhere else.