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As far as I can recall there was never any viewable clipboard shipped with windows, I do remember a set of Microsoft developed Power Toys, that added items to XP that were usable on later versions that may have contained an advancement to the basic Clipboard , but I think the Clipboard viewer was actually an add on installed with early versions of Office or Office applications such as word and excel.
As many systems sold with windows were also supplied with some form of office, even if this was only a trial the addons remained after the trial It could be that everyone is correct