Forgetful clipboards

[Jadzia]

I've seen people complain about this problem before, and I've always felt much sympathy for them.

Basically, the windows clipboard works normally most of the time, but if you leave things in there for longer than a minute or two, there's a reasonable chance the contents will mysteriously disappear.

My new computer has this problem, and it's an absolute nightmare because I use the clipboard extensively, sometimes holding a page of data in there for 10-15 minutes or so before pasting it where I want it. Then realising it's gone and I'll have to write it all again

Does anyone have any ideas what might be causing it?

Is there any way I can monitor background applications/services to see if any are using the clipboard?




/edit

Anyway, here is what I was making: A program that combines words to make names for things. For example, if you're creating a story that takes place in space and is about mining, then you might like a title for your story that combines related words like "Iron Moon". My program aims to make this search easier.

 

[ngc7293]

My first thought is that your "new" computer is using Win7 and perhaps it has a setting for how long it will hold onto its settings for the clipboard. Since I am an XP user I am only guessing.

Another question is: did this happen on your old computer? If not, you may want to take the new computer back to have the memory replaced? But this sounds more like a software issue than hardware.

http://www.winvistaclub.com/t72.html

I googled the problem instead

 

[Jadzia]

My first thought is that your "new" computer is using Win7 and perhaps it has a setting for how long it will hold onto its settings for the clipboard. Since I am an XP user I am only guessing.

Another question is: did this happen on your old computer? If not, you may want to take the new computer back to have the memory replaced? But this sounds more like a software issue than hardware.

http://www.winvistaclub.com/t72.html

I googled the problem instead

Thanks for that. It didn't happen on my old comptuer, no. This is the first computer I've had this problem occur with. It's also my first intel processor and my first use of integrated graphics&sound.

I believe it's a software issue too. If it were a hardware/memory error I'd expect programs to be crashing, and not just forgetting things.

I'm going to try disabling some services and background applications to see if I can narrow things down and find the culprit.

And the ClipMagic software in your link looks interesting. I might give that a try.