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BetterClipboard 0.2.3 — Forget forever: keep a password, a token or anything else out of your history for good

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Nucs/BetterClipboard/main/install.ps1 | iex

Updates in place and keeps your history. The installer verifies the download's SHA-256 and closes the
running BetterClipboard gracefully.

  • Forget forever. Right-click an item (or press the Menu key) and choose Forget forever…. It is
    deleted, and BetterClipboard never records it again, whichever app copies it next: a browser, a terminal,
    ShareX, or bclip put. It is never re-imported from Windows' own clipboard history either.
    • Everything must match, letter case included. Line endings and spaces around the text don't matter, so
      the same token copied from a terminal with a line break after it is kept out too. Copies already in
      your history that differ only that way disappear with it.
    • Pictures are recognized by their pixels (the same screenshot as PNG or bitmap), file lists by their
      paths.
    • Only a fingerprint (a SHA-256 hash) is kept, encrypted with your history, plus the item's kind, length
      and source app so you can tell entries apart. The content itself is gone.
    • Changed your mind? Settings › Forgotten forever lists every entry and how often it was kept out since.
      Allow again records it again from its next copy.
  • bclip forget ID does the same from the command line (undoing it is left to Settings), and
    bclip status counts forgotten items.

Everything new in 0.2.2 (groups, ShareX screenshots) is described in the 0.2.2 release.

File What
BetterClipboard-0.2.3-win-x64.zip App + bclip for x64 PCs (self-contained)
BetterClipboard-0.2.3-win-arm64.zip App + bclip for ARM64 PCs (self-contained)
SHA256SUMS.txt SHA-256 of both zips (install.ps1 checks it)
install.ps1 The installer / updater / uninstaller
  • Windows' own clipboard history (Win+V, when it is on) is separate: it still keeps what you copy until the
    next restart. BetterClipboard only makes sure the item never comes back into its own history.
  • An older BetterClipboard can still open your history, but it doesn't know the forget list and records
    forgotten content again while it runs.
  • Not code-signed yet: a zip downloaded with a browser may trigger SmartScreen; the PowerShell installer is
    unaffected.

Code signing policy: see the README for whether this release is signed, what is signed, and who approves it.

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