I'm a great fan of freeware apps for computers. One of the most useful I've found is this:
http://www.nakka.com/soft/clcl/index_eng.html
It's an extended clipboard that keeps in it's history the last 20 entries you made. It lets you select from this history with a shortcut (Alt+C) by default. Very useful for when you want to clip several bits of text from one application into another and don't want to continually switch between them.
It worked for me when I had XP, and now works on Vista too. You'll probably want to add it to your startup folder so it starts when Windows loads up.
Bye for now,
Andy