Portable Visual Clipboard

The Windows clipboard in an incredibly useful feature, and it’s close to impossible to imagine working without it. However, it has its shortcomings, allowing you to only store a single entry at a time. Don’t worry though, because you can rely on third-party enhancements, and Portable Visual Clipboard is a suitable example in this regard.

As the name clearly points out, the application saves you the entire time and effort required to go through a setup process, so you can even deploy it on a thumb drive in case you need an enhanced clipboard on other computers. Registry entries are not modified, so the health status of the target PC is not put at risk.

Most of the time the application can be found in the tray area, but there’s also a desktop gadget to help you out. This latter item also shows the current item in the clipboard and allows you to expand the window to view the history of items.

On the first launch, you’re taken to the settings screen to manage general behavior options. Here, you can view and manage hotkey commands to bring up the history of stored items, as well as to define the width and height of the window. You can use both keyboard hotkeys, and mouse commands to quickly bring up the history window.

On the bright side of things, there’s not really a limit to the number of history items, but you can only store text string. More than this, you can have important strings saved as a note, which aren’t discarded on exit. A double-click operation gets the selected string ready for pasting.

Taking everything into consideration, we can state that Portable Visual Clipboard is a reliable clipboard enhancement, especially since it can be used on the go. Important notes can be saved for storage on the long-run, while hotkey commands allow quick access to saved items.