Clipboard Inspector monitors the Windows clipboard and displays its contents in a variety of data formats. You can view and save any of the supported formats, including images and RTF files. Images (which are stored as bitmaps on the clipboard) may be exported in a variety of other formats including GIF, JPEG, and PNG.

This program was inspired by the old ClipBook Viewer application that comes with Windows. Sadly, ClipBook Viewer is hidden in recent versions and hasn’t been updated in years. While working on another project, I needed a tool that would let me view the raw contents of the clipboard in several different formats. ClipBook Viewer just didn’t cut it and I couldn’t find another tool that did everything I wanted, so I wrote Clipboard Inspector.

• Bitmap
• CSV
• Files (copied files and folders are displayed as a textual representation of their paths)
• HTML
• RTF
• Text
• Unicode Text

• Bitmap
• GIF
• JPEG
• PNG
• TIFF

These screenshots were taken by pressing ALT+PrintScreen and using Clipboard Inspector to save the bitmaps as PNGs. Sexy, yes?

• Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, 2003, or Vista.
• Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 or higher

• ClipboardInspector-1.0.0.zip (05/13/2006)

• Clipboard Inspector cannot be run from a network drive due to .NET security restrictions.

Copyright © 2006 Ryan Grove.
Clipboard Inspector is freeware. Share and enjoy.