It just happened to me (for the umpteenth time). I had written a reply in the quick reply box and I wanted to move it to a standard reply in order to use the link insert button. However, I inadvertenly used Ctrl+C again and my original text was lost.
I thought, I had enough of this. I will find a solution. And here it is:
3D Clipboard allows you to store multiple items in your clipboard at once. It supports text and images. As soon as you copy something to your clipboard, 3D Clipboard will add this item to its menu.
Installing 3D Clipboard is very easy. Just unzip the distribution file into a directory of your choice. If you want 3D Clipboard to start automatically, just make a shortcut in your Startup group.
Un-installation
To un-install 3D Clipboard (now why would you want to do that?), simply delete the directory where you installed it. (assuming there's no other files in there). 3D Clipboard does not make any registry entries or create any files.
What it does
3D Clipboard allows you to store multiple items in your clipboard at once. Currently, it only supports text, but it will eventually support other formats as well (such as images). As soon as you copy something to your clipboard, 3D Clipboard will add this item to its menu.
Documentation
Well, 3D Clipboard is a very simple program. It adds an icon of a paperclip to your tray area next to your clock. If you click the paperclip, it will display a popup menu of items in your clipboard. The item with a check next to it is the currently selected item. To select a different item, just click it. If you copy something into your clipboard that 3D Clipboard does not recognize (such as an image or a file), there won't be a check next to any items. Images will still work, but if you copy something over an image, you won't be able to go back to it.
Another free application is
clipboard magic.
The problem with both of these, is that the way they handle non latin text. For example, Greek text is stored as extended ASCII [
ÕðïøéÜæåôáé êÜðïéïò ðùò ç ãõíáßêá ôïõ ôïí áðáôÜ] (which you can still restore by
referring to this tip or using the
Greek gibberish converter I created for this task).
They both support Unicode now. Some more clipboard managers:
Ditto clipboard managerArsClip ClipXCLCLcopyqClipjumpClipboard ManagerClipmate (commercial)