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You may be better off not having features you will never use. However, programs with more features are often more complicated. Make a list of the features you need: this will reduce the number of programs you have to consider. Some now want screen grabbers with built-in editing and labelling functions, and the ability to share the results online. Some wanted to capture movements or changes in gif images. Some people wanted auto-scrolling, where the screen grab captures a full-length web page, not just the part currently on screen.

This is where alternative programs come in handy.įor example, I used to look for programs that could save web images in PNG format – because they look sharper than JPegs – when this wasn’t common. You should now have Snipping Tool (SnippingTool.exe), Snip & Sketch and a few ways to take screen grabs using Print Screen, but you may need other features.

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PicPick-stamps for windows Photograph: Microsoft You can always go to the Screenshots folder later, and delete the ones you no longer need. It’s a great way to record the price and description of something you’re about to buy online, or to document a technical problem. One simple easy-to-remember action saves a copy of the whole screen, including the time shown on the task bar. You may have to paste it into another program to save or share it.ĭon’t underestimate the power of hitting WinKey+PrntScr. In this case, pressing Alt+PrntScr copies it to the clipboard.įinally, you may be able to capture a selected rectangle by using WinKey+Shift+S (and if that doesn’t work, it will soon). Often you will want a screen grab of the “active window” – usually a page in a web browser, but it could be in any program. Hitting the Windows key and Print Screen (WinKey+PrntScr) not only copies the current screen to the clipboard, it also saves a file of the image in the Pictures folder under Screenshots. If you want to save it, paste it into a graphics program such as Paint 3D or and save it from there. From there you can paste it (Ctrl-V) into an email or Word document etc. Today, pressing the Print Screen key usually saves a copy of the current screen image to the clipboard. Indeed, the Print Screen function, where hitting a dedicated key dumped the screen to a printer, predates Windows. People often forget that Windows has several ways to take screen grabs without using an app. This will make Windows more secure, more reliable, and easier to maintain for inexpert users. In the long term, Microsoft wants casual and home users to be able to do everything they need using modern Windows Store apps. If it’s not obvious, this is the same approach as the Apple iOS and Google Play app stores. They also run on ARM chips as well as Intel processors. They are touch-friendly and work well on smartphones and tablets. Apps are sandboxed so they can’t do bad things to your PC, which makes them safer to run.

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They are downloaded and maintained from the Windows Store, which is safer than trying to figure out which download button to click on a website, and apps don’t come with unwanted additions. Windows Runtime apps have lots of advantages.

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Microsoft is in the process of replacing old Win32 programs with apps written to a new programming interface called Windows Runtime, which was introduced with Windows 8 in 2012. The problem with Snipping Tool is that it’s a traditional desktop application: it dates back to the launch of Windows XP tablets in 2002, and was included in Vista in 2006. You may need to try a few to find one that meets your needs. However, there are more than 100 screen capture programs of various sorts, and there isn’t one that’s best for everyone. If it doesn’t do what you want, you can suggest improvements, while looking for a suitable alternative. The Snip & Sketch app is the intended replacement, and if you don’t have this month’s updated version of Windows, it’s available from the Windows Store.

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On 27 June, in a note on a preview version of the next release (1809 AKA Redstone 5), Microsoft said: “Currently, we are not planning to remove the Snipping Tool in the next update to Windows 10 and the consolidation work underway will be a feedback and data-driven decision.” So, Snipping Tool has been reprieved, at least temporarily.

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