Clear Items in Windows 10 Clipboard

[Joe Caverly]

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   _admin: 1
_elevated: 1

TCC  28.02.18 x64   Windows 10 [Version 10.0.19043.1586]

My goal is to clear all clipboard history from the Windows 10 clipboard via TCC.

Presently, I can only clear the most recent clipboard entry via TCC using;

echo off | clip

I can clear the entire clipboard history via the settings window;

...but I would like to do this via the Take Command Console.

Raymond Chen referred to the following links on how to accomplish this;
Clipboard.GetHistoryItemsAsync
Clipboard.DeleteItemFromHistory
Windows-universal-samples/Samples/Clipboard/

...but this is above my skill level.

Suggestions would be appreciated.

Joe

 

[vefatica]

This works but it requires elevation.

echo off | clip
wmic service where "name like 'cbdhsvc_%%'" call stopservice
wmic service where "name like 'cbdhsvc_%%'" call startservice

You can get the user service suffix with @WMI and use SC.EXE (e.g., sc stop cbdhsvc_82a3d) but you'll still have to be elevated.

 

[Joe Caverly]

Thanks for that @vefatica

I combined that into a single command;

pshell /s "Restart-Service -Name "cbdhsvc*" -force"

...which resulted in...

Joe

 

[vefatica]

Did it also get rid of the legacy-clipboard entry? I had to do that separately.

 

[Joe Caverly]

I just ran Restart-Service again, and you are correct, the legacy-clipboard entry was not removed.

Joe

 

[samintz]

Thanks for that @vefatica

I combined that into a single command;

pshell /s "Restart-Service -Name "cbdhsvc*" -force"

...which resulted in...
View attachment 3619

Joe

I tried that using PSHELL and it doesn't do anything. No errors, but doesn't clear the history either. This powershell command worked for me:

powershell -Command "& {Restart-Service -Name "cbdhsvc*" -force}"

Is there some trick to using PSHELL?

 

[Joe Caverly]

@samintz Are you running TCC elevated?

Joe

 

[samintz]

@samintz Are you running TCC elevated?

Joe

Yes

 

[samintz]

I can run: pshell /s "type $Profile"
and that works

 

[samintz]

My issue was using -s instead of /s. Once I switched to /s it started working.