The snip is automatically copied to the Snipping Tool window. In the Snipping Tool, tap or click the arrow next to the New button, choose the kind of snip you want, and then pick the area of your screen that you want to capture. Enter your chosen key combination (CTRL-ALT-P is popular) directly by clicking on the keys you want to have as shortcut keys and then click OK or Apply. A window will pop up, click in the Shortcut key box under the Shortcut tab. Right click the program name Snipping Tool or its shortcut and select Properties.

If you are a little more adventurous you can also create a Shortcut for the Snipping Tool. You now have handy access to this tool at any time. Right click on the program name Snipping Tool and then select Send to → Desktop to create a shortcut on the desktop. If you wish to pin the tool to the Taskbar then right click the program name Snipping Tool and select Pin to Taskbar. Check Tablet PC Optional Components, click OK, and then close the Programs and Features applet. Click “Turn Windows Features On or Off” in the left pane and then click through the User Account Control dialog Box, if necessary. The Programs and Features control panel applet will now open.

If you can not find the program, press the Windows key, type Programs and Features, and press Enter. In Windows 8 open the Snipping Tool by swiping in from the right edge of the screen, tapping Search (or if you are using a mouse, pointing to the upper right corner of the screen, moving the mouse pointer down, and then clicking Search), enter Snipping Tool in the search box, tapping or clicking Apps, and then tapping or clicking Snipping Tool. The tool can also be opened by clicking on Start and then typing Snipping Tool followed by Enter in the Search box. Using the Windows menus we select Start → All Programs → Accessories and the Snipping Tool appears under the Accessories folder. On Windows 7 we need to open the Snipping Tool and there are several ways to do this. The Snipping Tool comes with Windows 10, 8, 7, and can be installed on Windows Vista and XP via the Microsoft Experience Pack for Tablet PC. Capturing multiple active windows or one screen of a multiple screen setup did not seem possible unless you knew about Microsoft’s Snipping Tool. Combining ALT with the PrtScn key brought them a new nirvana when they realized that would capture the active window. For many novice users, not realizing that the PrtScn key (Print Screen on some keyboards) was not printing their screen became a revelation when they understood that it was instead sending the image to the clipboard.

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