Show contents of the Windows clipboard

Question

How can I see what the Windows clipboard currently contains without using the paste operation?

I don\'t want the \"pasted-to\" application to perform any actions on the

Answer 1

NirSoft offers a free “Inside Clipboard” utility which allows you to see the raw clipboard contents and different formats. It’s close to what you would see with a programmatic API but with a nice GUI. Its GUI includes hex view. It also allows data to be exported and allows saving a snapshot to a .clp file which it can open and allow you to examine later.

If you need to see things at the level of the programmatic API to quick check things without writing a program yourself, I recommend this tool.