You actually can access the Windows clipboard, if you wish. The full path
is:
c:\windows\system32\clipbrd.exe
although I can't think of a reason you'd want to. Windows XP includes a
service that makes it possible to share the contents of the clipboard with
remote computers across a network. That's a head-scratcher for me.
One reason you might want to access the Clipboard is to clear it.
I have to do that once in a while. I copy and paste a *lot*.
Copy and Paste quits working and clearing out Clipboard seems to fix this.
Clipboard takes ages to open for me so I actually use Empty Temp Folders 283
to clean out the clipboard.
Interesting...thanks for the info! I actually thought that the Windows
clipboard holds only one item at a time, so that when you 'copy' or 'cut'
something, the clipboard's previous contents are overwritten. I know that
the Office clipboard can store multiple items.
Because years and years go it was an experiment in how to share info on a network. There was no Com and DDE was the other means. Both are on the way out although DDE is used by the shell.
DDE was the way that a word processor could put data in a spreadsheet. Now they use COM for that.