Copy and paste history that remembers more than the last thing
The Windows clipboard holds one item. Copy a second thing and the first is gone, which is exactly when you discover you still needed it. Quick Clipboard keeps a running copy and paste history of the text you copy, the last 100 entries, so the line you lost ten minutes ago is still there.
From any program, Ctrl+Alt+C opens the history as a small pad at the edge of your desktop, with the cursor already in Search clipboard. Type a few letters, click the line you want, and it goes back on the clipboard. Esc, or a click anywhere else, puts the pad away. If you would rather skip the paste step, switch on Paste when I pick a line and the text lands directly in the window you had open.
Copying something that is already in the list moves it back to the top rather than filling the history with duplicates.
How to see your clipboard history in Windows 11
Windows has its own Win+V panel with a short list. With Quick Clipboard running, Ctrl+Alt+C opens a longer, searchable one. Your shortcut can be changed under Open your history from anywhere in Settings, and Start with Windows keeps the app waiting in the notification area from the moment you sign in.
The pad sorts what you copy into tabs so you do not have to scroll: All, Favorites, Top for your most-used entries, and Links, Addresses and Codes, which appear automatically once you have copied something of that kind. A dot marks a tab with entries that are new since you last looked.
Favorites you can paste without opening anything
Some text you paste every day: an email sign-off, a postal address, a meeting link, a ticket template. Click the star beside a line and it becomes a favorite. Favorites never fall out of the history, no matter how much you copy afterwards, and Clear history leaves them in place.
Your first nine favorites are numbered. Hold Ctrl+Alt and press 1 to 9 and that favorite is pasted at the cursor, in any app, without the pad appearing at all. If Suggest favorites is on, a line you keep reusing is offered as a favorite, no more than once a week.
Copy text from your phone to your PC
Choose Link Phone, then scan the code with your phone's camera. A page opens in the phone's browser, with nothing to install and no sign-up. Paste or type something there, send it, and it appears first in the PC list, tagged as from phone. Going the other way, Send to phone on any favorite pushes it to the linked phone.
