Hi, this is Bob from Plugable Technologies. What I'd like to
do today is give a quick demonstration of a new feature
in the windows 10 May, 2019 update. And that new feature is
called clipboard history. In a nutshell, previously when you
copied information to the windows clipboard it would store
that information until it was pasted into another application.
Now you couldn't really see the clipboard or access it and when
you copied new information into it, the previous information was
overwritten and this latest version of windows 10 Microsoft
has added the ability to store multiple pieces of information
in the clipboard and recall them individually. Let's take a quick
look. If you go to windows settings and go to the system
option,
if you're running the May, 2019 update, you should have this
clipboard section and you can turn on the clipboard history
here. Once that info is turned on, anytime you copy something
to the clipboard, it will be saved. If you want to recall
this information or see what's within the clipboard later, you
just have to press the windows key plus the V key, V for Victor
on your keyboard and it will bring up this clipboard browser.
In this case, you can see I've got three different website URLs
that I've copied to the clipboard previously. If I want
to paste that information within the notepad application, I just
have to click on it and it'll paste the information. If I want
to go back and paste other information, I just have to do
windows key and the V and then I can pick any of the other items.
Pretty straightforward, but it gets even more useful if I go
within the clipboard history, I can individually remove or pin
information to stay in the history. Let me show you. If I
click on these three dots, which generally are referred to as an
ellipsis, I've got different options here. I can delete, pin
or clear all. Now clear all is as you would expect, it would
clear everything in the history, but if I pin this information,
now,
If I select clear all
the pinned piece of information will stay in the history useful
perhaps for something that you may copy and paste fairly often.
Um, that's pretty handy. Are there any limitations that we
need to be aware of? Well, according to Microsoft, this
clipboard history is limited to 25 total pieces of information.
When you put in a 26th the oldest one will be removed and
overwritten with the latest. It also has a limit of four
megabytes in terms of size of the information and then
information is limited to pure text, HTML or bitmap image
files. No other information that you copy and pay such as a JPEG
image or other types of information will go into this
clipboard. Despite those limitations this is a very
useful feature. So just to recap and windows 10 main 2019 update,
Microsoft has introduced the clipboard history feature when
turned on. It allows you to store multiple pieces of
information in the clipboard for retrieval and pasting into other
applications at a later time. That information within the
clipboard history can be managed to be either cleared
individually all at once, or information can be pinned so
that it's not erased. Hopefully find that useful and thank you
for watching.