OT: snippingtool.exe

[vefatica]

Snippingtool.exe (Windows) ... who knows about it? It makes it really easy to get a pic of part of the screen ... start it, outline the region with the mouse and the snippet is in the clipboard!

 

[thorntonpg]

I do now :) Had to use everything to find it though. Nice little app with a simple editing feature.

 

[vefatica]

It's the cat's pajamas ... a pic of a screen rectangle in the clipboard in about 5 seconds. That beats the heck out of my old way:

[Alt]PrintScreen ... mspaint ... paste ... select ... crop ... select all ... copy ... and sometime later, "net stop stisvc"

 

[TEA-Time]

Yup, it's actually been around since Win7. I didn't find out about it until maybe a year of using 7, and I'm still telling people about it. Heh Two more features would be great: add text and print.

 

[rconn]

Too simplistic for my needs. I tried it a while back and immediately went back to Snagit.

 

[Joe Caverly]

Yup, it's actually been around since Win7.

It's been around since Windows Vista, as I use it in Vista on a daily basis. One of those hidden gems.

Joe

 

[Charles Dye]

I didn't; been using Alt-PrintScreen and PBrush. Thanks for introducing it.

 

[drwtsn32]

Love the Snipping Tool! Been using it since Windows 7 days.

 

[Charles G]

Could just do START > Accessories and look what is there...

 

[Charles Dye]

Could just do START > Accessories and look what is there...

Or type WHICH SNIPPINGTOOL.

 

[TEA-Time]

It's been around since Windows Vista, as I use it in Vista on a daily basis. One of those hidden gems.

Ah, I wasn't aware of that, and apparently neither are the places I've seen mention it. Heh I just Googled "snipping tool vista" and found it wasn't in all editions, and not necessarily enabled by default in the editions that did have it.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/137099/article.html

 

[Charles G]

Or type WHICH SNIPPINGTOOL.

Or see what other useful tolls are under the hood of Windows.....

 

[samintz]

I assigned a hot-key to it (Ctrl+Alt+S) and use it all the time.

 

[samintz]

If you use MS Office OneNote, there's a built-in short cut to do the same thing.

 

[Joe Caverly]

If you use MS Office OneNote, there's a built-in short cut to do the same thing.

Wow.

I've been using Microsoft Office OneNote 2003 for many years, but never knew about that built-in shortcut.

Thankyou for that!

Joe