Save clipboard to file windows

So if you find Windows 10 history feature difficult to manage then I highly recommend checking out my earlier post. How to access all links copied?

When you copy text where is it stored? How to check all copied things? How to see the stuff you copied and pasted? A list of things you copied and pasted? Press the Windows key and the X key on your keyboard at the same time to bring up the quick menu. Select Settings. Once inside Windows 10 Settings choose System. Near the bottom of the System menu select Clipboard. That file includes the text that you pasted from the Clipboard. You can also paste images directly into files much the same.

When you right-click on the Windows desktop there is also a PasteAsFile option. So now we can paste text and images to files without opening any software first. Related Posts. Previous Post. Note that you may also use Paste As File which Martin reviewed in The program does not have an interface. It is not a script either. PasteHere is a Shell command that integrates with Windows Explorer.

There are a couple of steps you will need to do to get it working, but once it has been set up, you'll find it very useful. Download the archive and extract it to a folder. It has 7 files in the directory. One of these is a Registry key. You'll need to run it, but don't do that yet. Right-click on the PasteHere.

It should open in your default text editor, e. It has just four lines of code. We need to edit this. Copy the path of the folder to which you extracted the program's files to. For e. Replace the path in the 4th line of the Registry key with the one you copied in the previous step. Don't forget to add the at, equal to and double quotes, or the exe. Save the registry file and close the text editor. Now, go back to the folder and double-click on the registry file that you edited. Windows will display the standard warning about how adding registries can cause programs to stop working correctly.

Click on the Yes button to proceed to the next step. It should tell you that the value has been added to the Windows registry. Time to test how PasteHere works. Copy some text to the clipboard. Right-click in any folder in Windows Explorer and select the option that says "Paste image or text from clipboard as file".

The program will create a new text file that contains the text that was copied to the clipboard. There is no option to change the naming pattern. Try it with an image, PasteHere will save it in the format and resolution of the original picture. There is one minor issue with PasteHere, and that's the length of its context menu item, "Paste image or text from clipboard as file".

That's a long name isn't it? You can change it, open the registry key that we edited earlier.