Clearing the clipboard using VBScript
How can the clipboard be cleared using VBScript on Win32? It can not be done directly, but you can let an application do the work. This will clear the clipboard, using the command-line tool clip : Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") WshShell.Run "cmd.exe /c echo. >NUL | clip", 0, True Another way is to use applications that have a COM interface and that can manipulate the clipboard. E.g. Microsoft Word and Internet Explorer. This will work, using Internet Explorer, but may throw a user dialog: Set slaveApplication = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application") slaveApplication