How to Clear the Windows Clipboard

The clipboard in Windows is cleared when you do a operating system restart or logging off from your computer. Instead of taking a restart or logging off, you can actually do the clearing with command prompt.

Open your command prompt and type in below command,

echo off | clip

The executed command will clears the clipboard from your operating system.

You can also do a test here,

  • Copy some words from this website and paste it to notepad (you can copy this line)
  • Open command prompt and execute echo off | clip command.
  • Now open another notepad and paste it. See the different? You cannot paste it anymore because the clipboard was cleared..

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