InsideClipboard

Designed for advanced PC users, InsideClipboard is a simple application that that monitors your Clipboard's content and reveals the binary code of all formats stored there, giving you the possibility to extract items to save as binaries or bitmaps.

No installation necessary

There is no setup pack involved, so you can save the app files anywhere on the disk and just double-click the executable. It doesn't require any DLLs and doesn't create new Windows registry entries. However, it creates a .cfg configuration file at exit for storing settings.
As far as the interface is concerned, InsideClipboard adopts a clean and intuitive window, where you can study the ID, name, handle type, size and index of each format currently stored in the Clipboard, as well as select any item to read its binary content in the bottom pane.

View and save Clipboard binary content

The information of one or more selected entries can be copied or saved to file with the text, CSV, HTML or XML format. Moreover, you can save any files as binaries or bitmap images, export data to CLP format, or clear all Clipboard contents.
It's possible to use a basic search function when trying to locate a specific item, show grid lines, hide any columns, choose the content display mode between hex dump, ASCII and automatic, display characters above ASCII 127, as well as refresh info automatically as soon as contents change.

Evaluation and conclusion

It worked smoothly during our tests, without triggering the operating system to hang, crash or prompt error messages. As we expected, it didn't put a strain on the overall performance of the machine, using low CPU and RAM.
To sum it up, InsideClipboard offers a simple solution for examining the binary content of Clipboard items, regardless of their format.