Is there a key combination to cycle through clipboard history when pasting in windows?

Question

In Visual Studio, I can cycle through my clipboard history by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+V rather than CTRL+V. I believe it's called a clipboard ring. But that feature doesn't seem to exist outside of Visual Studio, at least not with the same key combination. Is there a key stroke combination built in to windows to do the same, i.e. be able to cycle through your clipboard history while pasting?

Solution 1

Windows (7 and previous versions) does not have such a built-in clipboard management feature; but you might want to read the following article:

http://lifehacker.com/5298615/five-best-clipboard-managers

I recommend ditto and clipX.

Solution 2

As of Windows 10 version 1809, Windows now has built-in clipboard history.
You can push ⊞ Win + V to show it.

Note that this is still has many fewer features than Ditto, so that would still be a good option to consider.

Comments

[barlop]

dunno about win7, did you assume that it does? Winxp has no clipboard history! For win xp at least, Look at c:\windows\system32\clipbrd.exe it's pretty crappy. You may need an alternative.

[carmbrester]

I am using Windows 7. Honestly, I just assumed that the feature would work the same, independent of windows version - seems that may not be the case. And I wasn't aware that XP had no clipboard history.

[Luke Girvin]

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[Greg Jennings]

I updated my answer. Thanks for the feedback.

[Adaptabi]

so how do you cycle anyways?