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July 27th, 2026 at 1:59 PM

Random Windows Things Part 2: Unexpected Clipboard Data Behavior

I recently ran into an interesting behavior on Windows that I found unintuitive so I figured other people may want to know about it too. An application can call AddClipboardFormatListener to register a callback that gets called whenever the clipboard contents change, like when you copy a file or some text. The process can then […]

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