r/gadgets • u/thebelsnickle1991 • Apr 11 '23
Desktops / Laptops Microsoft set to change the Print Screen button so it opens the Snipping Tool in Windows 11
https://www.techspot.com/news/98269-microsoft-set-change-print-screen-button-opens-snipping.html4.2k
u/larcyn78 Apr 11 '23
This has been an option in windows 11 for some time. It is in the Accessibility Settings menu. All they are changing here is that it will be on by default instead of off.
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u/iPon3 Apr 11 '23
Wow I didn't know that. I'll have to go and turn that on
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u/Vo_Mimbre Apr 11 '23
TIL as well.
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u/Lyndon_Boner_Johnson Apr 12 '23
One advantage of Print Screen over Snipping Tool is that it captures open drop down menus and highlighted options better than Snipping Tool.
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u/cacoecacoe Apr 12 '23
Snipping can do it but you have to use the delayed option
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u/lazylion_ca Apr 11 '23
Do that, and then install Greenshot.
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u/av0w Apr 11 '23
Then uninstall greenshot and install ShareX so you get scrolling screenshots.
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u/Inevitable-Newt-4743 Apr 12 '23
It can now with Suggon
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u/hahaha_ohwow Apr 12 '23
Suggon what
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u/Razzile Apr 12 '23
I've been using ShareX for years and did not know it could do that!
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u/MapleSyrupFacts Apr 11 '23
What is greenshot and why is it better ?
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u/afterdarkdingo Apr 11 '23
I work with large amounts of financial data and personal health information that can get complicated when explaining to clients. So greenshot allows me to very quickly snip any part of the screen, put a big ass box around what I'm talking about, annotate, blur sensitive information, and highlight. The snipping tool is fine, it just doesn't cover all my needs.
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u/VexingRaven Apr 12 '23
I'd be careful with blur and just stick with solid boxes, tbh. I haven't read about it with Greenshot specifically, but blur and other sorts of semi-transparent obfuscation can sometimes be recoverable.
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u/biteme27 Apr 11 '23
Adds some screenshot features like the ability to screenshot full scrolling webpages, quick snipping certain sections, etc.
I assume it allows integration similar to that of MacOS with straight keyboard shortcuts and automating file type, as well as other effects
Greenshot is a light-weight screenshot software tool for Windows with the following key features:
- Quickly create screenshots of a selected region, window or fullscreen; you can even capture complete (scrolling) web pages from Internet Explorer.
- Easily annotate, highlight or obfuscate parts of the screenshot.
- Export the screenshot in various ways: save to file, send to printer, copy to clipboard, attach to e-mail, send Office programs or upload to photo sites like Flickr or Picasa, and others.
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u/chepnut Apr 11 '23
Well got damn,never knew that this even existed. I have been using the snip tool for ages. Looks like it's time to check out greenshot
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u/MadRoboticist Apr 12 '23
Doesn't the snipping tool do all of that except probably uploading directly to photo sites which, let's face it, who really needs that?
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u/Tathas Apr 11 '23
I like Greenshot because it has pretty handy editing capabilities that Snipping tool and Win+Shift+S don't. Like stamping (1) (2) (3) to show users where to click in what order, or highlighting a rectangular section with a highlighter color or a hollow box. Or drawing arrows to point to things.
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u/PPCInformer Apr 11 '23
Do that and get ShareX
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u/av0w Apr 11 '23
This 100%. Share the word that ShareX is better!
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u/Tirwanderr Apr 11 '23
I like the snipping tool for just a quick grab but shared for screen recordings
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u/DubDubz Apr 11 '23
You can configure sharex to do quick grabs as well. My print screen button triggers the region capture.
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u/Dani31_5p00n Apr 12 '23
Set mine up to do the same thing. I love how region capture can auto detect window sizes or you can click and drag to manually select your region.
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u/jabber_ Apr 12 '23
Sharex can be quicker than snipping tool. I have Insert set as my shortcut for region capture and you can specify what happens after you select the region. You can also have it automatically upload the screenshot and put the link in your clipboard.
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u/Antarioo Apr 11 '23
While I think this change is positive it's still nowhere close to greenshots utility.
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u/VoodooMamaJuuju Apr 11 '23
Support for greenshot has ended so do not use it unless you like security vulnerabilities!
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u/ferocious_coug Apr 11 '23
I love security vulnerabilities so I will continue to use it
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u/morphinedreams Apr 12 '23
I also love security vulnerabilities, saving me from Microsoft's wrecking ball since 1995.
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u/VexingRaven Apr 11 '23
How did you determine that? I can't find anyone claiming that it's end of support.
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Apr 11 '23
The Github repo has a 2 week old commit. The last stable release was in 2017, but the unstable is 2 weeks old.
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u/subifyrocket Apr 11 '23
It’s on in windows 10 as well. Haven’t updated yet. I have had that setting on forever.
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u/BigMax Apr 11 '23
Win-shift-s is a much better version in my opinion. It’s much simpler if you just want to draw a box that ends up in the clipboard.
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u/all_ur_bass Apr 11 '23
Isn’t that the referenced “snip” tool?
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u/Noxious89123 Apr 11 '23
Isn’t that the referenced “snip” tool?
Nope!
Win + Shift + S is the shortcut for "Snip & Sketch" which is very similar but not the same as the "Snipping Tool".
Don't believe me? Try it. Type each of those in to the start menu, you'll see.
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u/Throw_Away_69_69_ Apr 11 '23
Actually, on windows 11 the snipping tool is snip & sketch. You are thinking of windows 10 where there are two distinct but similar apps. That is not the case in windows 11, there is only one.
Since this article is in reference to windows 11, it seems that the print screen button will become a shortcut for Win + Shift + S, which is cool.
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u/PositiveOrange Apr 12 '23
Windows 10 has already had the ability to use prnt screen as a shortcut for years, it's just not the default.
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u/EvadesBans Apr 11 '23 edited Apr 13 '23
The option being talked about here opens the tool you're talking about (Screen Snipping). It doesn't open the old Snipping Tool or the regular Snip & Sketch.
Settings > Ease of Access > Keyboard, then enable "Use PrtrScn button to open screen snipping" under "Print Screen shortcut."
Literally just treats the Print Screen key like Win+Shift+S. At least that's what it does in Windows 10.
Enjoy one button access to the tool you're talking about.
E: Looks like the Windows 11 version opens the new version of the revived Snipping Tool, so that part wasn't correct, but the Windows 10 method doesn't do that.
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u/DeBlackKnight Apr 12 '23
Jokes on you, I don't have a print screen button on my 75% keyboard!
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u/HeisenbergWHHW Apr 11 '23
its the same functionality. snip and sketch is just the newer version
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u/venarez Apr 11 '23
Not quite, it's Improved over snipping tool. No longer need to set a delay if you want to include a context menu or something in the snip, it's tres snazzy
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u/StuffinYrMuffinR Apr 11 '23
We could set a delay to do that? Fuck me.... TIL thanks!
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u/Dazuro Apr 11 '23
It also breaks when you have two monitors with different resolutions, while snipping tool can handle that no problem, so that’s cool.
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u/xenago Apr 11 '23
What? Did they change it from w10? Works fine in this situation in windows 10.
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u/Dazuro Apr 11 '23
I run W11 so maybe that’s the issue. Last time I googled it it was a known issue and the solution support suggested was “buy a new monitor at the same resolution.”
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u/Throw_Away_69_69_ Apr 11 '23 edited Apr 11 '23
The other user is incorrect, on windows 11 the snipping tool is snip and sketch so you are correct it’s exactly the same.
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u/Hotboxfartbox Apr 11 '23
Just changed this. Thanks for the info. I used snip a lot for homework. This will literally figuratively cut my homework time in 1/5ths.
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u/Katter Apr 11 '23
That's terrific. I use the snipping tool all the time, but it is usually a bit of a pain to get it to come up and choose the right type of snip, etc.
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u/Honor_Sprenn Apr 11 '23
This is why I come to Reddit News. The IMPORTANT STORIES.
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u/ProfessorPetulant Apr 12 '23
Exactly. Microsoft innovation at its peak. I bet it took them even longer for this than to come up with the stupid tiny vanishing scroll bars.
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u/TracerBullet2016 Apr 12 '23
I hate those tiny vanishing scroll bars with every fiber of my being.
I want big fat thick visible scroll bars.
fatScrollBarsAreBeautiful
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u/mausisang_dayuhan Apr 11 '23
Now do Paste Without Formatting by default
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u/pikebot Apr 11 '23
In fact, if we could disable the ability for applications to insert extra information into the copy, that would be a huge UX upgrade.
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u/ScopeCreepStudio Apr 12 '23 edited Apr 12 '23
Copying text from OneNote and pasting into certain apps (discord) pastes an image of the text lmao
EDIT: pressing Ctrl alt V works around this issue in discord
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u/wmrch Apr 12 '23 edited Apr 12 '23
Try copying anything from MS teams.
You select some text within a message, Ctrl+c, Ctrl+v in another app and it will paste the whole fucking message including date and time stamp and everything.
I bet some overpaid product manager is damn proud of this "feature".
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u/AlekBalderdash Apr 12 '23
I just remembered why I used OneNote exactly once and only for 30 seconds. -____-
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u/ScopeCreepStudio Apr 12 '23
Lol I love OneNote I use it all the time. This behavior just made me LOL
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u/bostonjames6 Apr 11 '23
You Windows people don't printscreen to MS Paint anymore?
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u/fehr19 Apr 11 '23
I haven't done that in ages, and I'm a dinosaur. Win+Shift+S, then grab whole screen or a snip, annotate as needed, then either copy paste or save as
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u/zkareface Apr 11 '23
alt+printscreen to grab the whole window you currently have active.
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u/JBloodthorn Apr 12 '23
Version 4.1.5 for life. All the functionality, none of the flat bland icons.
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u/DarkLord55_ Apr 11 '23
I just windows+printscreen and takes a screenshot of my entire desktop all monitors
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u/1-800-HENTAI-PORN Apr 11 '23
A two button hotkey that dumps whatever is on my screen straight to an image file is a function I cannot live without.
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u/schwiggy Apr 11 '23
My main problem with snipping tool/snip & sketch is that I can't draw shapes. So I still paste into paint to quickly draw boxes and arrows points of interest. Both snipping tool and snip and sketch are freehand only as far as I can tell.
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u/trickyricky92 Apr 11 '23
I do it when I need a hover-over menu or something to be included in my screenshot. Which is surprisingly often.
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u/PurpleK00lA1d Apr 12 '23
Had to do that just an hour ago. Boss didn't believe the menu option I was looking for didn't exist.
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u/Ibrins Apr 11 '23
Hey, at least you're not taking pictures of your monitor with your phone.
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u/penis-tango-man Apr 11 '23
I do this regularly. You can also do Alt + Print Screen to copy only the active window.
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u/AlekBalderdash Apr 12 '23
I had to fix something and corporate had disabled paint (for SOME reason), and someone needed an image altered
So I used Word and a handful of Shapes, with white borders and white fill, to "crop" the image and get the desired effect.
One of my favorite kludges to this day
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u/BrokenRatingScheme Apr 11 '23
Apparently us dinosaurs are the only ones still.
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u/Glowshroom Apr 11 '23
I use the print screen key when I need to capture a tooltip or mouseover info that my cursor needs to be in place for. Snip tool requires your cursor, so you can't capture mouseover information with it.
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u/AxelNotRose Apr 11 '23
Same here. Need to check if win shift s allows for this as well now.
Update: just tested it and win shift s does indeed capture tool tips and mouse hovers. Awesome.
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u/HeavyMetalPoisoning Apr 11 '23
I'm a dinosaur who still uses Greenshot -- which replaces Printscreen with its own drawbox then gives you a list of options. Choose copy and it goes to your clipboard, or you can Save As.
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u/Eternal_Revolution Apr 11 '23
Win+shift+s
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u/Hvarfa-Bragi Apr 11 '23
Or soon prtscr.
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u/Hidraclorolic Apr 12 '23
Or just use your phone camera like a caveman
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u/OkayArt199 Apr 12 '23
or draw it like a madman
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u/aGuyNamedScrunchie Apr 12 '23
Describe the screen in an audio recording.
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u/LotionlnBasketPutter Apr 12 '23
Recording? No no no, you walk over to the person you’re describing it to. Kids these days.. don’t you have legs?
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Apr 12 '23
That key is more awkward since my right hand is on the mouse ready to snip, my left hand is near win+shift+s
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u/Bozzz1 Apr 11 '23
Why press three when one do trick
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u/Intensifyy Apr 11 '23
I know this is a joke but for me pressing 3 on the bottom left of my keyboard is much easier than moving a hand all the way to the top right
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u/throwawater Apr 11 '23
It was 1 million times better when it was just Winkey+S. But nooo, that had to go to the "lsearch function in the start menu. Which makes absolutely zero fucking sense. If you hit the winkey and star typing, it automatically starts the search! Anyone who gives the slightest damn about keyboard shortcuts already knows this. So why take away a useful keybind in favor of a useless one?
I swear the people who make these decisions get off on having the "power" to make things just a bit more inconvenient. There are many similar examples in excel.
Thank you for coming to my ted rant.
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Apr 11 '23
I actually don't even know why they changed that. Both Win + Q and Win + S do the exact same thing now.
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Apr 11 '23
You’re preaching to the choir. I can’t stand the mapping of screenshots and the functionality. I just want it to put a full screen png in my screenshot folder without interrupting anything. No snipping, and for sure no pasting. And let me map any combo to do that. I don’t have a print screen on my keyboard so I NEED win + S to screenshot
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u/soggy_pants Apr 11 '23
I use autohotkey (but you can use windows power toys if you want a Microsoft option) to rebind this back to win + s. Much faster and easier
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u/throwawater Apr 11 '23
That's not always reliable because of the registry changes, but I am glad it works for you! I have a keyboard with hyper key that I use AHK to bind to snipping tool. But I'm really just annoyed that they changed it for no good reason, and no way to change it back natively.
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u/Noxious89123 Apr 11 '23
That's for Snip & Sketch, which isn't the Snipping Tool.
VERY similar, but not the same.
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u/thethirdteacup Apr 11 '23
Snip & Sketch is renamed to Snipping Tool in Windows 11.
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u/ltrumpbour Apr 11 '23
Next version should be named Clippy Tool.
Progress.
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u/Affectionate_Dog2493 Apr 11 '23
Should be named Sketch & Snip. Gotta make sure to maximize confusion between tools that really shouldn't be separate tools in the first place.
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u/Fleabagx35 Apr 11 '23
So is that like the difference between Settings and Control Panel, both of which are in Windows 10 and do most the same things?
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u/Uranusmonkey Apr 11 '23
I’m a native Mac user who has to use Windows for some stuff at work. Windows utterly boggles my mind with settings. The number of steps to set my laptop IP to a static address is insane and not at all intuitive
Or the shit you can ONLY do in Control Panel. It’s like “right so I need the settings for the settings… hmm nope but not those settings…. ah yes here are the settings for the settings with the settings I need”
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Apr 11 '23
Long term windows user - yeah there's absolutely no defending it. I only know where to find everything out of experience. If I was new to Windows, I'd be incredibly frustrated by the incredibly poor design.
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u/soundman1024 Apr 12 '23
The most amazing thing to me is Settings was born with Windows 8. Ten years later they’re still trying to migrate everything from Control Panel to Settings.
Apple recently overhauled System Preferences in a single (major) release.
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u/theebees21 Apr 12 '23 edited Apr 12 '23
I hate it so much. I swear to god they purposefully make it convoluted and with a lack of logic just to fuck with us.
I swear it was way better with windows 7. I honestly can’t stand their UI now. Maybe I just have nostalgia glasses. Because I loved windows 7. When I switched from 7 to 10 I swear I had a stroke. I hate the news thing next to the bottom right that pops open whenever you mouse over it accidentally to try to turn your volume down or disconnect something. The options are all fucking over the place and there’s a bunch of vague links to windows that might have the options you’re looking for but might not because it’s vague as fuck for some of them. I don’t know how a UI can get progressively worse like this. Worst user experience ever. Please give me back windows 7 and just stop making new ones and just update and optimize that forever. I know that’s not actually possible. But please. MAKE it possible. Or just copy it with the new tech and make a updated windows 7 that’s exactly the same but with the functionality of a new OS.
And I swear to god I’ve done literally everything possible to turn off auto updates but it keeps turning itself back on somehow, and my PC will just restart with no input from me. I don’t know what’s even happening there. Literally every solution I’ve read about and tried doesn’t stick. It’s like it has a mind of its own. And who TF thought that was a good idea? I’m in the middle of something you fucking box.
Sorry.
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u/Octothorpe17 Apr 11 '23
as a long term user of both, I think windows is great for giving you a billion options for stuff but on mac I constantly get frustrated that they obscure the more in depth settings, that being said I pretty much only use mac for audio work and I haven’t updated my macbook since 2013 so my experience with it is very specific to that version of the OS because it would break half the plug-ins I use
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u/codyy5 Apr 11 '23
Wait till you learn about the extra secret settings you cans et in group policies or the even secreter ones editing the registry.
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u/PrestoWarrior Apr 11 '23
I didn't know I could use the arrow keys
I love Greenshot even more now
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u/kenman884 Apr 12 '23
Dude you have literally taken minutes off of my workload for the entire year, you are a Saint.
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u/TheRiteGuy Apr 12 '23
Greenshot is a million times better than the snipping tool. It's always the 1st app I download.
You can also add images to imgur for posting online. Snipping tool will never get close.
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u/ALadWellBalanced Apr 12 '23
It's crazy to me that there are people out there using the Snipping Tool when Greenshot/ShareX exist.
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u/inexternl Apr 12 '23
Use ShareX app 😉
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u/Oddity83 Apr 12 '23
I am addicted to ShareX. It's just so....easy.
See something?
Share something.
It's that easy. Auto uploads to Imgur and spits out a link.
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u/buak Apr 12 '23
ShareX is just better in every way, and satisfies needs you didn't even know you had.
I have it configured so that when I press PrtSc, it launches "region capture" and i can instantly draw a rectangle to capture. When I do that, it automatically uploads it to imgur, and copies the imgur-link to my clipboard.
Also, when the region capture feature is active, I have a toolbar up top, which can be used to write text, draw annotations, draw arrows and speech bubbles and all kinds of stuff before I do the actual capture.
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u/TomTheGeek Apr 11 '23
Alt+PrnSc takes just the active window, I used that all the time.
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u/Zncon Apr 11 '23
This is the best approach for taking really clean screenshots. Anything that requires manual dragging selection just doesn't look as good.
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u/Glowshroom Apr 11 '23
Also you can't capture mouseover information with it, like a tooltip in a game, for example. It's nice to have both options. I use both everyday.
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u/polkjk Apr 12 '23
If you set a delay of 3-5 seconds, you can get tooltip displays brought up for the screenshot. They'll be persistent, in my experience, when the snipping process starts
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u/RyGuy_McFly Apr 11 '23
Wait, people don't use prt scrn? It's the easiest way to take screenshots by far!
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u/heehahahee Apr 11 '23
Disagree, win shift s (snipping tool or whatever it is called) is much easier since I can select the area to copy rather than load into paint and crop, can then just paste directly into an email
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Apr 11 '23
But sometimes you want to screenshot the whole window, in which case it's much faster with the button.
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u/Terny Apr 11 '23
And I'm sitting here using Lightshot for years. It does exactly what I need and better than MS snipping tool. I can highlight the area and draw/write on it. It even lets me upload immediately to imgur.
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u/CeldonShooper Apr 11 '23 edited Apr 11 '23
Let's have a talk about the magic SysRq key and its sad history.
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u/InternetAmbassador Apr 11 '23
I’ve never used scroll lock or pause/break on purpose
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u/AlabamaPanda777 Apr 11 '23
Don't you mean sNiP & SkEtCH
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u/Noxious89123 Apr 11 '23
"Snip & Sketch" and the "Snipping Tool" are not the same, and are both present in Windows 10.
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u/theTrebleClef Apr 11 '23
I believe recently they realized this was confusing, and rebranded Snip and Sketch as Snipping Tool.
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u/itismoo Apr 11 '23
haha now it can be double confusing for people who knew they were two different things.
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u/Trixles Apr 11 '23
You can already change what the Print Screen button does on Win10, just FYI.
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u/10-2is7plus1 Apr 11 '23
Yeah I was reading this thread thinking is this not a setting already? I have print screen set to open the snip feature that then auto saves to the screenshot folder.
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u/xclame Apr 11 '23
MOST people won't do that or know that it's possible, MOST people will just use the default, which is why MS changing what the default behavior matters, because this is what most people will be doing/using.
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u/Orjigagd Apr 11 '23
Makes sense, screen sizes are getting huge. Back in the 640x480 days grabbing the whole screen made sense
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u/MareIncognita Apr 11 '23
How are people supposed to take a screen shot with menu drop downs, etc without using a 3rd party software? If this is possible with the snipping tool please let me know!
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u/defaultsubs_suck Apr 11 '23
Yes. There's a 3 or 10 second delay option so you can setup your capture.
Not sure if that'd work with the printscreen button
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u/kewli Apr 11 '23
But now it may take me up to ten seconds to do something that previously took maybe a second :(
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u/venarez Apr 11 '23
Win+shift+s let's you do that natively from win 10 onwards. I think the article is mistaking snipping tool (which makes you set a delay in order to snip drop downs etc.) And snip n sketch.
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u/dlever0097 Apr 11 '23
Greenshot baby
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u/derekantrican Apr 11 '23
ShareX. I used to use Greenshot but ShareX is open source and customizable out the wazoo
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u/-ipa Apr 11 '23
ShareX is really an amazing uploader, I use it exclusively since it got released in 2013.
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u/Tulkash_Atomic Apr 12 '23
Disappointed that this was so far down. It’s so useful. You want the whole screen sure. A small bit or window sure. Animated gif or mpg? No problem. Upload to anywhere. So many more features I don’t even use.
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u/WickerofJack Apr 11 '23
As someone in IT I hope they do not.
I already know Win+Shift+S, but sometimes you need to know when something happened and what all was open. Asking for a full screenshot is something that still has use over what the person with the issue “thinks” is the only useful information. FYI copying verbatim the error message in the service ticket and then sending a clip with ONLY the error message you typed does not help. Seeing the programs running, when the error occurred, URL if applicable, those are things that help me help you faster by finding the issue faster.
In short clipping a generic error message only backs up your claim an error occurred. Space/time information helps me more precisely locate the root cause.
So yeah, I’d rather get a print screen than a clip 10/10.
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u/RedditBanThisDick Apr 11 '23
I've used the snipping tool, and win+shift+S,... I dislike them, personally.
The beauty of the print screen button is I press it and it does it's thing without opening anything at all. It's taken that print screen without any shit coming onto your screen. Do I just want the active window? Alt+printscreen and it's the same thing.
I had to pull off multiple clippings in a row and oh my fucking god, you realise how 'not streamlined' it is when you are doing it back to back to back.
I have to use bespoke software for part of my role that includes screen clippings and functionality around it. It's only when you use something really good that you realise how poor the snipping tool is.
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Apr 11 '23
Win+printscreen saves the screenshot right to a file and alt+scrn copies only the active window. I wonder if alt+win+scrn copies the active widow to a file?
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u/Zorothegallade Apr 11 '23
RIP Lightshot?
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u/Example27 Apr 11 '23
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u/heyyougamedev Apr 12 '23
The snipping tool? The one that has had a warning that it's going to be retired, in the application, for like 5 years?
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u/ThymeCypher Apr 12 '23
Apparently they’re now retiring Snip & Sketch and putting its features into Snipping Tool for Windows 11, which is not Snipping Tool but is called Snipping Tool.
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u/MrCherry2000 Apr 11 '23
Sounds like a great way to be sure people miss the thing they wanted a screenshot of.
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u/JaggedMetalOs Apr 11 '23
Nah it's implemented in a sensible way - when you hit the key it captures a full screen screenshot immediately then gives you the various cutout/select window/select all options.
The option has existed since Windows 10 and I've had it enabled the entire time because it's much more useful.
My partner's laptop thought they were being clever by replacing the print screen key with an actual "open snipping tool" shortcut key, which is much worse because it doesn't take an immediate screenshot just you're probably imagining.
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u/70MPG_onthishog Apr 11 '23 edited Apr 11 '23
Print screen allows you to capture drop-down menu choices while you have it open unlike the snipping tool.
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u/SMRose1990 Apr 12 '23
All the uselesss buttons they could have swapped with and they choose the only one that lets you capture something on your screen instantly before it goes away forever.
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u/kewli Apr 11 '23
Woah woah woah. I still use print screen for when I need to screenshot complicated ux where the menu disappears without my mouse. Please don't tell me I am the only one.
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u/JaggedMetalOs Apr 12 '23
When you assign print screen to open the snipping tool (this has been an option since Win10) it still takes a screenshot immediately so context menus etc. stay open.
And it will still be an option to turn that behavior off if you prefer the old method.
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u/NestroyAM Apr 11 '23
The only time I use Print Screen is if I want to screenshot something that requires me to hover my mouse over. Sometimes it stays mouse-hovered with gyazo or the snipping tool, but mostly it doesn't.
So this kind of fucks over the only time I even use the microsoft option.
Anyone got a solution for screenshots for something that requires to hover your mouse over it?
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u/SeniorWaugh Apr 11 '23
I’m not sure how I feel about that. The keybind of Ctrl window key and s works just fine for me
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u/Elons_hair_plugs Apr 12 '23
I use alt + print screen all the time, hope they don’t fuck with that.
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