Questions tagged [snipping-tool]
Snipping Tool is an application included by default in Windows. It is used for taking and editing screenshots. In Windows 11, it is merged with Snip & Sketch app.
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Issues using snipping tool to attempt to grab items from a drop down menu
Snipping tool max delay set at 5 seconds and confirmed. Then I open (right click) my Windows 10 explorer on a desktop folder the drop down menu (many items) shows, but if I do anything to copy it the ...
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How can I make my custom icon for the snipping tool appear in the task bar in Windows 11 Home?
Here is my odd problem - I created a custom icon for the snipping tool.
I can pin it to my Start menu just fine, but if I pin it to the taskbar, the icon is invisible.
I only see the words snipping ...
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Snipping Tool prevents Greenshot from taking screenshots, even after it's been removed
The problem is that I can't get Greenshot to take screenshots. For some reason, some part of the Microsoft Snipping Tool appears when I press the screenshot button of the keyboard, even after I ...
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Chrome "bleaches" screenshots
Every once in a while as soon as I press Win+S to start the Snipping Tool, Chrome takes on a "bleached" pallor. This only affects Chrome and it happens on all four of my monitors. Restarting ...
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How can I change the default location Snipping Tool auto-saves screenshots to?
When you open the Windows Snipping Tool using +Shift+S, it will autosave the images to %UserProfile%\Pictures\Screenshots, but I want to change that default location.
How can I change the default save ...
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How to make the "Snip saved to clipboard" notifications disappear on reboot?
When I use the "Snip & sketch" tool, I don't close the "Snip saved to clipboard" notifications.
But I want to make them disappear after rebooting the PC, how can I do that?
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How to save a Windows Snipping Tool screenshot if the pop up or the message center does not let you left click to open the screenshot in a new window?
This happened only a few times over some years:
After taking a screenshot with the Windows Snipping Tool App:
Sometimes, you then cannot left click the pop up or message to get to the new window of ...
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Windows 11 Snipping Tool: Screenshot copied to clipboard, but couldn't save
This has been happening on my Windows 11 ever since I installed KB5027231 (OS Build 22621.1848). Every time I use Win+Shift+S to make a screenshot, Windows Snipping Tool fails with this (super ...
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How can I disable the Snipping Tool functionality triggered by the Print Screen key in Windows 11?
I recently upgraded to Windows 11 and noticed that the Print Screen key now opens the Snipping Tool instead of taking a screenshot and copying it to the clipboard as it did in previous versions of ...
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Unable to install Snipping Tool on Windows 11
A while ago, I had problems with Windows 11 Snip & Sketch / Snipping Tool. I could start a screenshot with WIN + SHIFT + S, but the notification to then edit and annotate the screenshot would not ...
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Lightshot on windows 11 is hard to install / troubleshoot
I got a new computer, Windows 11, and wants to replace snippet tool with Lightshot.
I uninstalled snippet tool, and installed Lightshot, but I don't think it installed 100% because there is no icon in ...
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my snip and sketch notifications are gone (suddenly)
One day, I tried to capture with snip and sketch but I don't get the on-screen banner or action center notifications.
I tried to turn it on in "Get notifications from senders" but the snip ...
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How to remove the Windows 11 snipping tool from F9 key?
I want to remove the default snipping tool (which is on F9) and replace it with an other one (and set up on F9 aswell).
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Computer: HP Elite Mini 600 G9
Monitor: PHL 346E2C
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Windows 11 Snipping tool doesn't have Paint 3D option like Windows 10
In Windows 10, when you use the Snipping Tool, there's a button that is the Paint 3D icon. If you press it, it'll open what you just snipped in Paint 3D. This allows you to do far more than what's ...
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Prevent user side to print RDP Session
I'm doing a project with some virtual machines, where I'm going to run a program where users can't save print on their machines. I already removed the Snipping tool from the server and the print ...
