How to Enable or Disable Clipboard History in Windows 11

How to Enable or Disable Clipboard History in Windows 11

This article shows how to enable or disable Clipboard History in Windows 11. If you are a new user and want to turn on or off clipboard history in your windows system then this article is useful and handy for you.

With help of clipboard history feature, you can copy and paste multiple items and files to and from their clipboard history. This feature of Windows is disabled by default, it means you need to enable it on your computer to use

After enable the clipboard history feature, Windows will remember up to 25 copied entries under 4 MB storage in the clipboard history. It supports Text, HTML, and Bitmap files. These entries in the clipboard history is automatically cleared each time when you reboot or restart your Windows system.

New Microsoft Windows 11 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft Windows. It is the successor to Windows 10 and it’s expected to be released later this year.

When you are ready, follow the steps below to enable or disable Clipboard History in your Windows 11 system:


How to Enable or Turn ON Clipboard History in Windows 11

To enable clipboard history, first click on the start menu and open the system Settings as shown in the image below:

open-setting-page

You can also use the Windows key + i shortcut keys to get to System Settings.

In the System Settings page, click on System and then select Clipboard from the right side of your windows screen

open-clipboard-setting

From the Clipboard settings, toggle the button and set it to the On to enable Clipboard history :

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How to Enable Clipboard History Using Keyboard Shortcuts Keys

You can also enable or disable clipboard history using the shortcuts keys, To do that, simply press the shortcut keys as shown the below:

Windows logo key + V

You will get a popup where you can enable clipboard history as shown in the image below:

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To view the items in your Clipboard history, you can use the same Windows key + V shortcuts keys.

clipboard-How to Enable or Disable Clipboard History in Windows 11

How to disable clipboard history in Windows 11

You can turn off Clipboard history feature by reverse the steps above, simply go to the  Start menu –> Settings –> System Clipboard and then toggle the button and set it to the Off to disable the Clipboard history in your Windows 11.

disable clipboard-history

That’s all

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