How to pause your clipboard history
Right-click the Clip by Zaweba tray icon and choose Pause recording. Nothing new is recorded until you resume, and the pause survives restarts.
To pause your clipboard history in Clip by Zaweba, right-click its icon in the tray and tick Pause recording. From then on Clip records nothing new until you choose it again. The icon turns grey with a pause mark so you can see at a glance that it's paused.
Pausing is quick, it's safe, and it doesn't touch what's already in your history.
Step by step
Find Clip's icon in the notification area at the bottom right of the screen. If you can't see it, click the small arrow there to show hidden icons. Right-click the icon and choose Pause recording.
That's it. Copy and paste carry on working normally in every program, because Windows' own clipboard isn't affected. Clip simply stops adding new items to its history.
To resume, right-click the icon again and choose Pause recording once more to turn it off. The icon goes back to normal.
You can also pause from the main window. Its Privacy page has the Pause recording option, and while recording is paused a bar in the main window reminds you.
It stays paused
Pausing is remembered across restarts. If you pause, shut down and come back the next day, Clip will still be paused. That's deliberate, since you may have paused for a reason that still applies, but it does mean it's worth checking the tray icon if you notice things aren't being recorded. Grey with a pause mark means paused.
When to pause
The most important time is when you use a password manager that runs as a browser extension. Clip can't detect passwords copied that way, because they look like ordinary text. Pause before you copy, resume afterwards.
Other good moments: copying bank or card details for a one-off payment, handling something confidential for a colleague, or copying a large amount of throwaway material that would push useful items down the list. Pausing for a few minutes keeps your history tidy and private.
Pausing compared with the other privacy options
Pausing is the manual switch. Clip also protects you automatically in two ways. It skips content that desktop password managers flag as private, checking before it reads anything. And it keeps a list of excluded programs, on the Privacy page, which comes pre-filled with common desktop password managers. Anything copied in an excluded program is ignored entirely.
So if there's a program you never want recorded, add it to the excluded list rather than pausing every time you use it. Keep pausing for the occasional moment that doesn't fit a rule.
If you've already copied something
Pausing only stops new items. If something sensitive is already in your history, open the main window and delete it from the History page. Clear history removes everything except your pins, and Clear everything removes the lot after asking you to confirm.
If you'd like extra protection for what is kept, Settings can encrypt the stored history with Windows' own protection for your user account, and deleted items are overwritten on disk.
Exiting instead
Exit on the tray menu closes Clip completely, which also stops recording. The difference is that pausing keeps Clip running, so the popup and your pins and snippets are still there while nothing new is added. For most people, pause is the better switch.
One right-click, one click, and Clip by Zaweba stops listening until you tell it otherwise.
