BetterClipboard 0.2.6

BetterClipboard 0.2.6 — updates from inside the app, any key as a shortcut, and a panel that opens at once

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. 0.2.5 has no update button yet, so use this command once to get 0.2.6; later versions
come through the button.

Updates from inside the app. A new button left of Pause lights up when a newer release is out.

• A click opens the update dialog: Update and restart, Later or Skip this version, with the release notes
  below. Nothing is installed without your approval.
• Update and restart downloads the release from GitHub, checks it against the release's SHA-256 list and GitHub's
  own checksum, installs it and starts BetterClipboard again. Your history, settings and shortcuts are kept.
• The check reads GitHub's public list of releases, once a day, and the request names only BetterClipboard's
  version. Turn it off in Settings › Updates, or install with -NoUpdateCheck; Check now is there too.
  Updates and Privacy
  in the README have the details.

Several shortcuts, any key. Settings › Shortcut is now a list: up to eight shortcuts open the panel.

• Press a combination in the box and it is recorded, also one that Windows or another app owns, numpad and media
  keys, F13–F24 and the Copilot key.
• Combinations that would break typing or the clipboard (Ctrl+V, Alt+Tab, Win+L…) are refused, with the reason.
• The menu next to the box lists the presets and the shortcuts you used before.
• Release from Explorer now works for every Win+letter shortcut in the list, not only Win+V.
• Choosing shortcuts in the README tells which way each
  kind of shortcut is taken over.

The installer takes Win+V over by default. It tells Explorer to release Win+V (one Explorer restart, only when
something changes). -NoTakeOverWinV leaves Win+V to Windows, and -Hotkey picks your own shortcuts. The installer
now works from the temp folder, so it runs from any folder. An update retries a folder that is locked for a moment,
and puts the previous version back and starts it if the swap still fails.

A faster panel. The panel appears in one step, without its fade-in, and opens in the tab you used last.

• Left and Right go through the tabs in a circle.
• Up from the top row walks into the groups column; Right goes back to the list.
• The mouse selects the row it is over. Tabs and group icons still need a click.

Fixed

• The installer no longer deletes other apps' "Start with Windows" entries. Every installer from 0.1.0 to 0.2.5
  emptied that list in the registry when it added BetterClipboard, and taking over Win+V emptied Explorer's advanced
  settings the same way. If an app stopped starting with Windows after you installed BetterClipboard, turn that
  option on again in the app's own settings.
• Uninstalling gives back Win+V and the other Win+letter shortcuts it released, and keeps the rest of Explorer's
  settings.
• The first Win+V after a start now types into the search box. Before, the keys typed right after the shortcut went
  to the app below.
• Enter right after typing pastes the item you searched for, not the one that was selected before the search ran.
• A paste into a window that runs as administrator: Windows blocks it, so BetterClipboard now says so and leaves the
  item on the clipboard for Ctrl+V.
• Copies made by scripts while BetterClipboard's own window was in front are no longer labeled "BetterClipboard".
• After a visit to the Claude, Codex, Pwsh, Cmd or Everything tab, a second row no longer shows as selected.
• Settings' switches have names for screen readers.

Everything new in 0.2.5 (the tabs for Win+R, PowerShell, Command Prompt, Everything, Claude Code, Codex and Snipping
Tool, search options, image previews, a resizable panel) is described in the 0.2.5 release.

File	What
BetterClipboard-0.2.6-win-x64.zip	App + bclip for x64 PCs (self-contained)
BetterClipboard-0.2.6-win-arm64.zip	App + bclip for ARM64 PCs (self-contained)
BetterClipboard-0.2.6-win-x64.7z, BetterClipboard-0.2.6-win-arm64.7z	The same files, 7-Zip compressed
SHA256SUMS.txt	SHA-256 of the zips and the .7z archives (the installer and the update check use it)
install.ps1	The installer / updater / uninstaller
betterclipboard.0.2.6.nupkg	The Chocolatey package (embeds the .7z archives)

• An older BetterClipboard can still open your history.
• Not code-signed yet: a zip downloaded with a browser may trigger SmartScreen; the PowerShell installer and the
  update button are unaffected.

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