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Creating an Icon for Clearing the Clipboard in Vista

You can create a shortcut that you can click to clear the clipboard. Here’s how:
1. Right click an empty space on the desktop and select New, then Shortcut.
2. In the Create Shortcut dialog box, under “Type the location of the item:”, type the following:
cmd /c “echo off | clip”
3. Click the Next button.
4. Under “Type a name for the shortcut,” enter: Clear Clipboard
5. To make it easier to identity, right click the new shortcut on click Properties.
6. Click the Change Icon button.
7. Click the Browse button and navigate to the following folder: Windows\System32\shell32.dll
8. Browse through the icons and select the one that looks like a clipboard
9. Click OK.

Now to clear the clipboard at any time, just double click the shortcut icon.