ClipClear, version 3.2.0
Copyright  1997-2004, Moon Software. All Rights Reserved.

Release date: January 5, 2004
Platforms: Windows 95/98/Me/NT4/2000/XP
Price: freeware
Author: Moon Software, Estonia
Homepage: http://www.moonsoftware.com

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Contents
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  - What is ClipClear?
  - Installation
  - Digitally Signed
  - History


What is ClipClear?
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ClipClear is a tiny free utility that allows you to clear the contents of the Windows clipboard with a click of the mouse. ClipClear places a little clipboard icon into tray area. If there is something in the clipboard, you'll see red cross over the icon. That means that by clicking on this icon you can clear the contents of the clipboard. That easy!
Right-clicking the icon brings up a little popup menu with some commands for launcing Windows Clipboard Viewer etc.
If you manage to copy large images and data over the clipboard now and again then you may find this utility useful.

Also, there are some command line switches that change behaviour of the program:

  /CLEAR   By including this switch on command line, ClipClear will clear the clipboard when it starts up. After that it will be running in the system tray area.
  /EXIT    This switch is used along with the /CLEAR switch. It just instructs the program to exit after clearing the clipboard. By using both /CLEAR and /EXIT switches, you can use the program just to clear the clipboard, it will not remain running in the system tray. For example you can make a shortcut to the program in your QuickLaunch area of the system taskbar (including these switches), then, when you want to clear the clipboard just click the shortcut and you are done. Useful when you want to use the program occassinally. It does not consume system resources that way and gives you more room in the tray area for other applications.


Installation
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Unzip files into a directory of your choice and make shortcut to the ClipClear.exe into your StartUp group, so ClipClear will automatically start each time you start Windows. To remove it from your system, you just need to delete the files - there is no settings in the registry or in another folders.


Digitally Signed
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The executable file included is digitally signed. If you have received the file that has an invalid or missing digital signature please contact us. You can see Digital Signatures tab when you invoke file properties window of a digitally signed file.


History
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3.2.0 (January 5, 2004)
+ Added /CLEAR and /EXIT command line switches.
+ Renamed from ClipClr.exe to ClipClear.exe.
+ Executable digitally signed.

3.1.1 (February 6, 1999)
- Fixed minor problem when the Windows Taskbar was moved to screen top position, then popupmenu was displayed on wrong position.

3.1.0 (October 9, 1998)
+ Now displays icon in the tray always, but if there is something in the clipboard, the icon looks different. That's probably better than in previous versions, where icon was hidden if there was no data in clipboard and thus whole tray was repainted if something was placed into the clipboard and icon was made visible.

3.0.0 (July 01, 1998)
+ Now pops up ONLY if something is in clipboard. So you'll see the icon in tray area only if there is data in clipboard.
- Now launches Clipboard Viewer on WindowsNT 4 too.

2.0.0 (December 19, 1997)
+ Complete remake: command-line utility changed to tray icon. Now you don't need any other tray tools to put ClipClear icon to tray area, since it automatically installs itself into tray when you launch it.
+ Added command to launch Windows' Clipboard Viewer (right-click)

1.0.0 (July 3, 1997)
+ initial release



