Windows最常用的功能之一可能是Windows 剪贴板(Windows clipboard)：该功能允许您在不同的程序和文件夹之间复制和粘贴文本、图像和文件。但是，随着它的所有用途，剪贴板一次只能保存项目。
幸运的是，有很多免费的剪贴板管理器可以显着增强剪贴板，使其可以容纳多个项目，更改文本的格式或大小写(formatting or case)，让您搜索剪辑，创建永久剪辑，将两个剪辑连接在一起，在计算机之间同步剪贴板等。在本文中，我将提到几个我最喜欢的Windows剪贴板替换(clipboard replacement)实用程序。
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Ditto是一个了不起的剪贴板管理器(clipboard manager)，它定期更新并免费提供 64 位支持。我很乐意为使用它支付少量费用，但由于它是免费的，我更开心。它也是那些在外面看起来超级简单的程序之一，但当你真正深入研究它时，它包含了大量的功能和选项。
它的伟大之处在于，任何人都可以轻松开始使用它，然后慢慢学习或(learn or play)使用这些选项和功能。一旦你成为使用它的专业人士，你会想知道没有它你是如何坚持下去的。
Ditto允许您通过在后端使用数据库来存储所有内容，从而在剪贴板上存储无限数量的项目。这意味着您可以复制一些内容，然后在5(item 5)天后去搜索该复制的项目，它会立即出现。(ll show)让我们看看如何使用一些基本功能。
安装后， Windows 任务栏中(Windows taskbar)会出现一个蓝色的小图标。继续复制一些文件或文本等内容，然后单击图标。
如您所见，界面过于简单化。我觉得这很好，因为我不一定需要在主GUI 界面(GUI interface)上查看所有选项。因此，一旦剪贴板中有项目，您可以通过多种方式粘贴内容，让我们来谈谈它们。
首先，您当然不希望每次粘贴内容时都必须单击任务栏图标，因此最好学习全局热键： (taskbar icon)CTRL + ~ (tilda)。tilda键(tilda key)通常位于ESC 键(ESC key)的正下方或 1(!) 键的左侧。按住CTRL，然后按tilda 键(tilda key)，无论光标所在的位置，都会弹出小剪贴板管理器。(clipboard manager)
现在要粘贴列表中的任何内容，您可以执行以下三件事之一：
1) 双击最后一个项目，将其粘贴到当前活动窗口或文本框中(window or text box)
2）将项目从列表中拖放(Drag)到您要粘贴到的位置
3)Press CTRL + number，其中 number 可以是 1 到 10。
对我来说最快的选择是使用方法 3(method 3)，因为它只需要使用键盘。拥有一大堆剪辑后，您可以使用CTRL + tilda剪贴板管理器(clipboard manager)，然后开始输入。不用在搜索框里(search box)点击，很方便。结果将立即被过滤，然后您只需双击该项目即可将其粘贴。
本文中的选项太多了，但是您可以通过右键单击列表中的任意位置并选择(list and choosing) Options来解决所有问题。
除了选项之外，右键单击剪辑时，您会看到许多其他选项，您可以从菜单中进行调整。其中包括能够编辑剪辑、查看剪辑的详细信息（例如创建和上次使用的时间）、使剪辑具有粘性(clip sticky)以使其始终位于顶部或底部、删除剪辑、粘贴文本剪辑(text clip)为纯文本，等等。
在“选项”对话框(Options dialog)中，基本上有 5 个选项卡，其中包含设置和选项，详细说明太多了。值得庆幸的是，他们有一个帮助页面(help page)，详细解释了每个选项，因此您不必尝试弄清楚它的作用。
唯一需要注意的是，有时当您尝试粘贴时，似乎什么也没有发生。实际上，Ditto 无法(Ditto couldn)确定(t figure)将项目粘贴到哪里，所以它只是将其复制到剪贴板。如果您按CTRL + V，您在同上(Ditto)选择的项目应该正确粘贴。
ArsClip
ArsClip是一个免费的剪贴板管理器(clipboard manager)，可以定期更新。它已经存在了很长时间，并且具有大量有用的功能。这包括宏、云同步(cloud syncing)、多文件类型支持(file type support)、剪贴板编辑(clipboard editing)等。
您可以使用如下所示的Ctrl + Shift + Z弹出菜单(popup menu)，或者使用如上所示的剪贴板栏来管理您的剪辑。(Clipboard Bar)
ArsClip也是高度可定制和可配置的。只需右键单击托盘图标(tray icon)并选择配置(Configure)。
在这里，您可以控制与弹出窗口相关的所有设置、剪贴板的管理方式等。总的来说，我推荐这个程序而不是下面的ClipX，因为它会不断更新，而ClipX已经有十年历史了。
剪辑X
ClipX是一个小型程序，与其他工具执行相同的操作，但功能较少。不幸的是，它自 2008 年以来没有更新，但在Windows 7和Windows 8/10 64 位上运行良好。前提是一样的：你正常复制项目，然后使用快捷键(shortcut key)访问这些项目。
安装后，您可以开始复制文本或图像(text or images)来测试ClipX。例如，我复制了四段文字和一张图像。ClipX已经记录了这一点，如果我单击系统托盘图标，我将看到所有复制的项目，然后我可以通过简单地单击任何项目或按下剪辑旁边列出的数字来选择这些项目。
很酷的是，我实际上可以看到剪贴板队列(clipboard queue)中的图像，这使得快速选择我想要的项目变得非常容易。如果您已经在一个程序中，比如说Word，您可以通过按Windows Key + V并按剪贴板中的项目对应的数字来调出上面相同的显示并将任何项目粘贴到文档中。
简而言之，ClipX所做的除此之外并没有很多。它确实具有搜索功能(search feature)，可让您轻松找到剪辑，但默认情况下它仅存储最后 25 个剪辑。您可以将其增加到 1024，但不能高于该值。它还具有编辑文本剪辑的能力，这可以派上用场。
如果您右键单击托盘图标(tray icon)并转到配置(Configure)，您将看到可以为程序设置的所有不同选项。
您可以设置要存储的项目数量以及是否希望它随Windows自动启动。它还可以让您跨会话保存历史记录（计算机重新启动(computer restart)），我认为这是一个基本功能。
ClipX的一个不错的功能是您可以将整个剪贴板保存到一个文件中，然后在同一台计算机或另一台计算机上重新加载它。(file and re-load)只需右键单击(Just right-click)托盘图标(tray icon)并转到剪贴板历史记录(Clipboard History)，然后选择保存历史记录(Save History)。Ditto有一个网络同步选项，这肯定更好，但如果你很少同步剪贴板，这也可以。
最后，ClipX本身可以通过插件进行增强。在ClipX 主页(ClipX homepage)上，您会注意到一个名为“下载插件(Download Plugins)”的部分，它扩展了ClipX 程序(ClipX program)的功能。
我不想提及太多的程序，因为我觉得那完全没用。我已经测试了很多，但这三个运行良好，具有良好的功能并且不会崩溃(t crash)或包含任何垃圾软件/恶意软件。Ditto是迄今为止我最喜欢的，但我觉得有必要为那些喜欢有选择的人提及一些替代方案。享受！
Best Free Clipboard Managers for Windows
Probably one of the most used features of Windows is the Windows clipboard: the feature that allows you to copy and paste text, images, and fіlеs between different programs and folders. However, with all the use it gets, the clipboard can onlу hоld item аt a time.
Luckily, there are a lot of free clipboard managers that can significantly enhance the clipboard so that it can hold multiple items, change the formatting or case of text, let you search clips, create permanent clips, join two clips together, sync clipboards between computers, etc. In this article, I’m going to mention a couple of my favorite clipboard replacement utilities for Windows.
Ditto
Ditto is an amazing clipboard manager that is somehow regularly updated and comes with 64-bit support for free. I would gladly pay a small fee in order to use it, but since it’s free, I am even happier. It’s also one of those programs that looks super simple on the outside, but contains a huge number of features and options when you really dig into it.
What’s great about it is that anyone can get started with it easily and then slowly learn or play with the options and features later on. Once you become a pro at using it, you’ll wonder how you ever lasted without it.
Ditto lets you store an unlimited number of items on the clipboard by way of using a database on the backend to store everything. This means you can copy something and then go and search for that copied item 5 days later and it’ll show up instantly. Let’s see how to use some of the basic features.
Once you install it, a small blue icon will appear in the Windows taskbar. Go ahead and copy a few things like files or text, etc and then click on the icon.
As you can see, the interface is deceiving simplistic. I find this to be good because I don’t necessarily need to see all the options right on the main GUI interface. So there are multiple ways you can paste content once you have items in the clipboard, so let’s talk about them.
Firstly, you certainly don’t want to have to click on the taskbar icon every time you want to paste something, so it’s a good idea to learn the global hotkey: CTRL + ~ (tilda). The tilda key is the one normally right underneath the ESC key or immediately to the left of the 1(!) key. Press and hold CTRL and then press the tilda key and the little clipboard manager will popup wherever your cursor is located.
Now to paste anything from the list, you can do one of three things:
1) Double-click on the item in the last and it will be pasted into the currently active window or text box
2) Drag and drop the item from the list into the location you want to paste it to
3) Press CTRL + number, where number can be from 1 to 10.
The quickest option for me is to use method 3 since it only requires using the keyboard. Once you have a whole bunch of clips, you can open the clipboard manager using the CTRL + tilda shortcut and then just start typing. You don’t have to click in the search box, which is convenient. The results will be filtered immediately and then you can just double-click on the item to have it pasted.
There are way too many options to go through in this article, but you can play around with everything by right-clicking anywhere in the list and choosing Options.
In addition to options, when right-clicking on a clip, you’ll see a bunch of other options that you can adjust from the menu. These include being able to edit the clip, see the details about the clip like when it was created and last used, having the ability to make the clip sticky so that it is always at the top or bottom, deleting a clip, pasting a text clip as plain text only, etc.
In the Options dialog, there are basically 5 tabs full of settings and options, which is way too much to explain in detail. Thankfully, they have a help page that explains each option in detail so you don’t have to try and figure out what it does.
The only thing to note is that sometimes when you try to paste, nothing seems to happen. In reality, Ditto couldn’t figure out where to paste the item so it just copied it to the clipboard. If you press CTRL + V, that item that you selected in Ditto should paste properly.
ArsClip
ArsClip is a free clipboard manager that gets regular updates. It’s been around for a long time and has a huge number of useful features. This includes macros, cloud syncing, multiple file type support, clipboard editing, etc.
You can either bring up the popup menu using the Ctrl + Shift + Z like shown below or use the Clipboard Bar as shown above for managing your clips.
ArsClip is also highly customizable and configurable. Just right-click on the tray icon and choose Configure.
Here you can control all the settings related to the popup, to how the clipboard is managed, etc. Overall, I recommend this program over ClipX below because it’s constantly being updated whereas ClipX is a decade old.
ClipX
ClipX is a tiny program that does the same thing as the other tools, but with fewer features. Unfortunately, it hasn’t been updated since 2008, but works just fine on Windows 7 and Windows 8/10 64-bit. The premise is the same: you copy items normally and then use a shortcut key to access those items.
Once installed, you can start copying text or images to test out ClipX. For example, I have copied four pieces of text and one image. ClipX has recorded this and if I click on the system tray icon, I will see all of my copied items, which I can then choose by simply clicking on any item or by pressing the number that is listed next to the clip.
The cool thing is that I can actually see the images in the clipboard queue, which makes it very easy to quickly pick the item I want. If you’re already in a program, let’s say Word, you can bring up the same display above and paste any item into the document by pressing the Windows Key + V and pressing the number corresponding to the item in the clipboard.
In a nutshell, there’s not a whole lot outside of this that ClipX does. It does have a search feature to let you easily find a clip, but by default it only stores the last 25 clips. You can increase this to 1024, but not higher than that. It also has the ability to edit text clips, which can come in handy.
If you right-click on the tray icon and go to Configure, you’ll see all of the different options you can set for the program.
You can set the number of items to store and whether you want it to auto-start with Windows. It also lets you save the history across sessions (computer restart), which is an essential feature in my opinion.
One nice feature of ClipX is that you can save your entire clipboard to a file and re-load it later on the same computer or a different computer. Just right-click on the tray icon and go to Clipboard History and then choose Save History. Ditto has a network syncing option, which is definitely nicer, but this works too if you sync clipboards rarely.
Finally, ClipX itself can be enhanced via plugins. On the ClipX homepage, you’ll notice a section called Download Plugins, which extend the functionality of the ClipX program.
I don’t like to mention too many programs because I find that to be totally useless. I’ve tested many, but these three work well, have good features and don’t crash or contain any junkware/malware. Ditto is by far my favorite, but I felt the need to mention a few alternatives for those who like to have choice. Enjoy!
