Create a Shortcut or Hotkey to clear clipboard in windows 7

It is seen many times that you copy something to the clipboard and you want that any other user of your computer use it. Copying something to the clipboard is quite simple and fast, but due to some reason it can not and you want to make a shortcut or hot key to clean it.

It can be done with the clip.exe utility that is built-in into Windows 7 or Vista.

It is important to note that it helps in case if you have copied data in a large amount and you do not want that it waste memory further.

Create a Shortcut Icon to Clear the Clipboard

To create a shortcut icon to clean up the clipboard follow the given procedure:

For which you want to create a shortcut right-click on it and then choose New option and then select Shortcut from the menu. A shortcut location box will appear, in that box type the following command

Cmd /c “echo off | clip”

Just by giving the command you will see an icon that will clear the clipboard with in no time.

Now you have icon, place the cursor on icon then right-click on it and then choose Properties option of that icon, and to make sure that command prompt did not appear, just change the Run drop-down to “Minimized”. Here you can also create a shortcut key. You will find a clipboard when you click the Change Icon button and then browse down to this file:

<SystemRoot>system32shell32.dll

Now we have achieved the icon that is much nice-looking and that will clean up the clipboard. If the network problems occur then first of all the thing that you have to do is to disable the built-in Windows Firewall. Here is another problem occurs that there are too many steps to on or off the firewall. So, it will best to create a shortcut key to avoid this problem.