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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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4 answers
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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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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). My config: Computer: HP Elite Mini 600 G9 Monitor: PHL 346E2C Keyboard: HP 655 ...
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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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Snipping Tool lightens certain windows (Windows 11)

The screen-clip utility with Windows 11's Snipping Tool lightens some windows during its capture operation. For instance, in some browser windows the text gets lighter, but in others it seems the same....
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Can I install the latest Windows 11 apps on Windows 10?

There are a lot of apps updated with Windows 11 which includes Microsoft Store, Photos, Notepad, MS-Paint, Snipping tool, Snip n Sketch, etc. They all are available at windows 11 but not at Windows 10....
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Awfully large screenshots; is there anything to do about this?

My new laptop has half-4K display. In order to look "usable" Windows 11 suggests 300% scaling on all elements. Most UI elements looks just fine, but Snipping Tool is not able to recognize ...
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Windows 11: How to reinstall Snip & Sketch

I did uninstall the old deprecated snipping tool from windows 11. But now I see "snip & sketch" is uninstalled too! I removed it via right-clicking on the snipping tool in the start and ...
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Programmatically disable notification for Screenclip/Snipping Tool

My application is using ms-screenclip: URI scheme to launch Windows 10/11 built in screenshotting tool. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/launch-resume/launch-screen-snipping My question is,...
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How to start the new Snipping Tool via run under Windows 11

Today I finally got the "new" Snipping Tool via Windows Update. In the past, I used Win + R -> snippingtool to run the old one, this however doesn't seem to work anymore ("cannot be ...
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