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Must-have apps in the System tray?

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rjbull:
PS Tray Factory, M8 Free Clipboard, FastStone Capture and Sysinternals Process Explorer
-Curt (April 16, 2007, 12:46 PM)
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Curt,

I haven't tried M8 Free Clipboard, but looking at its Web site, it looks pretty limited in comparison with some of the other free clipboard extenders.  Take a look at Mouser's own ClipboardHelp+Spell (CHS, CH+S), ArsClip, or Clipmagic.

Nighted:
ClipX is also a very good free, and lightweight clip program. Be sure to get the stickies plugin though.

I'm a hard core ClipCache user, but I find ClipX much more suited for graphics work as you can see the thumbnails from the context menu.

app103:
ClipX is also a very good free, and lightweight clip program. Be sure to get the stickies plugin though.

I'm a hard core ClipCache user, but I find ClipX much more suited for graphics work as you can see the thumbnails from the context menu.
-Nighted (April 18, 2007, 06:52 AM)
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Whoa! That's pretty sweet! I think my daughter will like that very much. (and me too!)

rjbull:
ClipX is also a very good free, and lightweight clip program. Be sure to get the stickies plugin though.

I'm a hard core ClipCache user, but I find ClipX much more suited for graphics work as you can see the thumbnails from the context menu.
-Nighted (April 18, 2007, 06:52 AM)
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A recent TechSupport newsletter had a quick review of several free clipboard extenders: he really liked Clipx, but thought ArsClip had the edge, especially as it can keep a much larger number of clips.  The limit of 15 stated on the Web page refers to the number in the popup.  Older ones get saved to disk, with a configurable number (by default 50) before they are completely deleted.  You can have groups of permanent clips as well.  The popup has preview of the clips. Not sure if this includes graphics.

I was a long-time big fan of ClipCache 1.41, the last free version, even registering out of gratitude without bothering to install the shareware version.  But, eventually corporate bloatware at work kept crashing it, and even the shareware version which I installed in desperation crashed as well, if not as often.  I found that Mouser's CHS was amazingly stable by comparison, only crashing once in several months of operation.  My chief beef with it is that it's slow to pop up.  ArsClip is almost instant.  ArsClip is no-install and portable, too.

Nighted:
ClipCache is currently 3.1.0 and has never crashed. It's clipmenus pop up immediately.

ClipX and ArsClip are 2 completely different applications and can't really be compared. ArsClip does not support graphics at all, so totally useless for me.

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