On Windows 10 the WinKey + Shift + S keyboard shortcut does open the Snipping portion of the Snip & Sketch tool but does not open Snip & Sketch app. Note: I remove the shortcut arrows from all my shortcuts so the icons shown don’t look like shortcuts, but they are. I put the shortcuts to those Apps in a folder and added the folder to my Taskbar as a toolbar as shown below. There are a lot of Windows apps that I use. If desired you can make the Desktop shortcut invisible and use just the keyboard shortcut. You can open the Properties and create your keyboard shortcut. A message will appear that the shortcut can’t be created in this folder and if OK to place on Desktop. Find your app (listed alphabetically and yes the Snipping Tool is there to create a shortcut with) right click and select Create shortcut. This open a page with all installed apps listed.ģ. Type in Shell:Appfolder and press the Enter key. Here’s how to create a Desktop shortcut to any Windows App:Ģ. While the article states how to create a Desktop shortcut for the Snipping Tool (which is a shortcut to a shortcut), you will have a tough time with Snip & Sketch and other Windows apps as there is no classical Path to these apps to put as the Location of the app file in the Shortcut. If, like the article says, you desire a keyboard shortcut for the app you will need to create a Desktop shortcut to create a keyboard shortcut from. To edit your capture (like add your handwritten comments) you need to open the Snip & Sketch app which is in the Start Menu. While this is good for quick multiple captures, it doesn’t allow for the editing functions of the Snip & Sketch app for your capture. All the Snipping portion will do is capture your screen capture and send it to the clipboard. You know just change the name nobody will notice. Sometimes I think MS just likes to play with us. BTW: the Win+Shift+S does work on the Win 10 side also bringing up Snip and Sketch. I haven’t decided if I want to reprogram the Win 10 side, I like the old interface better, or just leave it the way it is. I’m still not a happy camper since not my Win 10 and 11 Setups are out of sync. Thanks to this article I found all this out and have now programmed the Win 11 Side to use the kbd shortcut Win+Shift+S and it works. So what changed that the keystroke didn’t work on W11? Shouldn’t it have just pulled up the renamed program? Well, you’d think so…but NO because it isn’t named SnippingTool.exe any longer it’s now an APP (OH how I hate that word!). BTW I did an in-place upgrade so all the same stuff is present in Win 11 and just so you know I switch the Keyboard, Mouse, and Dual displays using a Tesmart KVM. Back to the Win 11 machine and it’s a no go. I flipped back to my Win 10 machine and the key still worked. I had one set to open the Snipping Tool and it failed when tried on Win 11. I ran across this only because I use a Logitech G710+ keyboard with programmable G-Keys. Seems like MS pulled a quickie on us and renamed Snip and Sketch, remember that being introduced in Win 10, to Snipping Tool. In my continued explorations of Win 11 I just found out that the Snipping Tool no longer exists! Wait you say, I can search for Snip and it pops right up.
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