A small, keyboard-first clipboard history for Windows.

Website: https://erfjab.github.io/CoBox/

• Saves everything you copy: text, code, links, images, videos, PDFs, audio and files.
• Keeps your history until you delete it.
• Runs in the background and starts with Windows.
• Uses almost no CPU while idle.

In PowerShell:

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/erfjab/CoBox/master/install.ps1 | iex

The same command installs CoBox the first time and updates it later. It only replaces the program: your history and settings are never touched. If the download fails, the installed version is left as it was.

• Windows 10 or 11
• Rust with the MSVC toolchain
• Windows 10/11 SDK (install it with the Visual Studio Build Tools)

Open PowerShell in the project folder and run:

cargo build --profile dist
taskkill /im cobox.exe /f 2>$null
mkdir "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\Programs\CoBox" -Force
copy target\dist\cobox.exe "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\Programs\CoBox\"
& "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\Programs\CoBox\cobox.exe"

The first build takes a few minutes.

Always start CoBox from the install folder, not from target. On launch it adds itself to Windows startup using its own path.

Pull or edit the code, then run the same commands as in Install. Your history and settings are kept.

1. Open CoBox, press Ctrl+, and set start with windows to off.
2. Run taskkill /im cobox.exe /f.
3. Delete %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\CoBox.
4. To also delete your history and settings, delete %APPDATA%\cobox.

Press Alt+V to open CoBox. Start typing to search.

With the mouse: click to select, double-click to paste, right-click to pin, scroll to move through the list.

Esc, Alt+F4 and clicking outside only hide CoBox. It keeps running.

Press Ctrl+,. Use Up / Down to choose a setting and Left / Right to change it.

cargo run          # fast debug build
.\run.bat          # stop the running copy, build, and start the new one

Only one CoBox runs at a time. A second copy exits right away.

Data is stored in %APPDATA%\cobox.