You Never Know When This Could Save Your Life

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You Never Know When This Could Save Your Life

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The true wisdom of the ages isn't passed down in ancient texts—it's shared through keyboard shortcuts. Nothing says "I care about your future" like teaching someone to access their clipboard history with Win+V. That moment when you realize your entire programming career could've been saved from countless "where did I copy that snippet from?" panic attacks. The real parental guidance we needed wasn't about life choices or financial planning, but about how to recover that perfect code snippet you copied 5 items ago. The clipboard history feature might just be the most underutilized lifesaver in Windows—right up there with actually reading error messages.

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