How to see clipboard history with images on Windows
Short answer
Windows' built-in clipboard history (Win+V) keeps recent text and some images, but it is limited and clears on restart. A dedicated clipboard manager like AppRig keeps a searchable history of everything you copy, including screenshots and copied images, holds pinned items, and lets you paste any past entry. It skips content that password managers mark as sensitive.
The manual way
Windows has a built-in clipboard history, though you need to turn it on once in Settings > System > Clipboard. After that, pressing Win+V opens a small panel of recent copies, and you can pin a few items so they stick around.
It covers the basics, but the limits show up fast. History is capped at a small number of entries, anything unpinned clears the moment you restart, and image support is patchy: some copied images show up fine, others do not appear at all. There is also no way to search through what you have copied.
The faster way with AppRig
AppRig’s Clipboard sub-tool captures both text and images, including screenshots taken with Print Screen or the Snipping Tool, into a dedicated list you can actually search. Click any entry to re-copy it, and pin the ones you want to keep so they survive the history cap instead of quietly falling off the end.
It pops out with Ctrl+Alt+V, the same muscle memory as Win+V, so switching over does not mean relearning a shortcut. It also honors the exclusion flags that password managers set on sensitive copies, so passwords you copy are skipped rather than sitting in your history.
See the full AppRig how-to in the docs →
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