Clipboard History Guide

1. Build and open

Download the source ZIP, extract it to a permanent folder and run build.bat on Windows 10 or 11. It builds with the .NET Framework C# compiler already on supported Windows systems. No prebuilt executable or installer is included. Open the clipboard symbol in the notification area; Windows may place it in the overflow menu.

2. Text, Images and Files

Copied text appears in Text. Screenshots and copied image files appear in Images, including PNG, JPG and WebP. Other files and folders appear in Files. An image-named folder remains a folder. Several images copied together remain one grouped entry; a mixed selection is split between Images and Files.

Image-file entries paste their original files, without re-encoding them. Supported formats have thumbnails; formats that the local image decoder cannot read show their names. Files must still exist at their original paths. History is not a backup. Image metadata includes the time, known resolution and format; grouped files list their formats. Clipboard bitmaps stored as PNG display PNG.

Truncated text entries offer View full text. The read-only viewer supports scrolling and text selection. Close it with Close, Escape or a click outside; your column positions are preserved. Fully visible text has no extra control.

3. Limits and deletion

Choose independent limits from 1 to 100 entries for Text, Images and Files. Upgrading carries your previous Keep value into all three, then saves each separately. Lowering a limit drops that column’s oldest app-owned entries. Select multiple entries to delete, or clear a whole column. Each populated column has its own rounded container. Scroll over a column or drag its inset scrollbar to browse it independently; the headings, counts, Clear/Delete buttons and bottom settings stay visible. A subtle shadow at the top shows when more content is above. Keyboard Page Up/Down and Home/End move the active column; Tab reveals an entry in its own column. Deleting a history entry does not delete its source file.

History is held in this app’s memory and ends when it quits. Deletion here affects only its retained entries.

4. Capture tools

The app listens for clipboard changes and does not register Print Screen. Your Capture & Paste shortcut remains available. Ordinary clipboard images are collected as images; screenshot-folder monitoring can also find saved captures.

For automatic delivery, update both apps: Clipboard History 0.2.0 and Capture & Paste 0.6.0 or later. Turn on Receive screenshots from Capture & Paste in Clipboard History. It starts off. Keep both apps running in the same Windows user session; connection is automatic. New Screenshot, Multishot and Advanced captures arrive in Images without changing your shortcut. Existing captures are not imported. A capture arriving through both the clipboard and this connection is retained once.

This opt-in connection also retains temporary screenshots marked private by Capture & Paste’s cleanup option, even while general private-copy skipping is on. These retained images remain until removed, trimmed or Clipboard History quits; clearing the current clipboard after ten minutes does not remove them. Turning the connection off stops direct delivery; ordinary clipboard recording still follows your other settings. Turning Clipboard History Off pauses both paths.

5. Status history

Click the arrow at the right end of the status line to open an overlay over the columns. It shows recent status messages, newest first, with their times. The underlying controls cannot be clicked through it. Use the arrows or mouse wheel for pages; Escape or the status arrow closes it. Five messages appear per page. Use the −/+ control to keep 5–50 messages (20 by default), up to ten pages. Lowering the limit immediately removes the oldest messages; Clear removes the log. Each message is limited to 160 characters plus its time. The limit is remembered; the messages last only for this session and do not contain copied text or images.

6. Limitations

Clipboard History does not read Windows + V history, by design.

Windows clipboard history can run alongside this app. You can turn it off independently in Windows Settings → System → Clipboard. Normal copy/paste and the direct Capture & Paste connection do not depend on Windows + V history.

7. Source, local data and rights

This Complete · maintained release follows owner testing and automated Windows regression checks. Clipboard contents are processed locally; there is no upload or account. Skip copies marked private starts on and is remembered. “Private” means the copying app attached a clipboard privacy marker; Clipboard History does not inspect an image to decide whether it is sensitive. Turn this switch off to retain supported marked copies locally, including sensitive copies from other apps. It does not change Windows history or sync. Unmarked sensitive copies can still enter history. The separately enabled Capture & Paste connection is the explicit exception described above. Retained app-owned image, text and thumbnail payloads are capped at 256 MiB in addition to column limits; older entries can drop sooner. Transferred images are limited to 40 million pixels. These are payload limits, not a total process-memory guarantee. Settings use your Windows account’s registry. Website Settings controls this website, not the installed app.

Original code is MIT-licensed. Keep the MIT licence when redistributing. Download source ZIP and its SHA-256 checksum.

Website settings

Main site and the named parents above the page follow the site’s hierarchy. Guide and Settings use local pages where available.

Settings lets you hide the header and choose Light, Light Gray, Dark or Pitch Black / OLED. Light Gray is the first-visit default. The parent row and footer remain available when the header is hidden.

Choose System, DM Sans, Outfit, or Outfit headings with DM Sans body text in Settings. The preview and interface change immediately. Outfit is the first-visit default; fonts are served by these websites. Your saved selection is preserved.

Theme, header and font preferences are shared across andrazdjuric.com websites in this browser. They contain no document data or visitor identifier and are separate from installed application settings.

Contact in the footer opens the main site’s contact options in a new tab. Use it for questions, problem reports or suggestions.

The shared interface rules explain navigation, link markers, themes, raised surfaces and control states.