Windows 10: How do I disable Snipping Tool / Snip and Sketch and Windows Shift S and install a better...

Snip and Sketch / Snipping Tool is fundamentally broken. The fact that it doesn't save a snapshot automatically and that there is no way to configure this basic behaviour means the app is completely useless.


I need to install a 3rd party app to do this, something like ShareX .. however I can't find a way to make Win+Shift-S call ShareX .. or OneNote's snipping tool or anything useful.


How do I remove the useless MS tool and replace with a working 3rd party app, and utilise the key binding which this uninstall action should now free up?


Having seen that this "bug" has been reported 3 years ago and Microsoft have failed to address it in subsequent releases of Snip and Sketch/etc I have little faith that it will be addressed before the min 10 year feature consideration cycle which Redmond seem dead set on :

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Snip and Sketch Awkward

Use Windows+shift+s to launch Snip and Sketch. Can snip a screenshot.

Now the problem is this: after snipping the screen shot, it does not automatically appear in the Snip and Sketch app. So I open Snip and Sketch and there's nothing on it.

So I have choose 'new' and snip the screen yet again.

I recall using this once and taking a screenshot and voila! Snip and Sketch appeared with the screen shot duly in the app's workspace, ready for annotations and saving etc. This facility has disappeared. I have re-set it according to instructions, and even
reinstalled it - yet the problem persists.

Would appreciate any suggestions. Thanks

 

Snip & sketch

Hello FrankEngstrom,

Thank you for updating me that information. If you mean the snip and sketch? Based on your description the snipping tool is crashing?

Please try to reset Snip and Sketch

Press Start then search Apps and Features

Select Snip and Sketch on the list

Click Terminate then Reset

If it doesn't work, Please try to create a new administrator account then check if everything is working.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/402692...

Sincerely



Independent Advisor

 

Snip & Sketch

It's the Snipping Tool that's being phased out, not Snip & Sketch. FWIW, I just used the latter tool and was able to paste the snip into a Word (Office 365) document. There was a point in the past when for reasons unknown, opening Word would clear the
clipboard. If you're using an older version, you might want to try opening the document first, before taking a screenshot.

If you prefer to use Snipping Tool, all you have to do (as I suggested earlier) is open the Start Menu and type snip.