Re: How do I disable the clipboard in Windows XP

Why are they even entering their password this way. Why don't they type
their password directly into the password box? I haven't seen anyone do
this ever. Why is this even a problem for you? Disabling the clipboard
will probably cause a heap of problem since no copy/paste operations will
work anymore. Some programs use the clipboard internally to do stuff.

Rinze

A lot of people use third-party applications such as PasswordSafe to hold
all their passwords in an encrypted store for which they need to remember
only a single strong password. Such applications offer the clipboard as an
easy means of entering difficult-to-type passwords into forms and other
places where passwords need to be entered. A well-behaved application of
this nature clears the clipboard after the operation has been completed.

These are very useful applications, since these days a person can have a
hundred or more sets of credentials for online shopping, user accounts at
other types of web sites, and so forth. It would be a shame for an
application developer to disable this.

PasswordSafe is on sourceforge.net, and is free for personal use. I
recommend it highly. Of course there are many others besides this one.

Tom Dacon
Dacon Software Consulting


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