Windows 11 - Snipping Tool issue with multiple monitors with different Scale Settings

Anonymous
2022-11-15T15:34:32+00:00

On Windows 11, if you have multiple monitors with different scale settings and resolutions, the snipping tool doesn't work properly. What happens is the smallest monitor's resolution determines what portion of the other monitors can be snipped. For example, I have three monitors on my Surface Laptop 4, the primary is 2496 x 1664 and is set to 150%. The second is 1920 x 1080 and at 100%. Third is 3440 x 1440 at 100%. When I hit print screen, it only greys out a portion of the first and third monitor. And the second isn't even greyed out at all. I've determined that if I put the all the monitors at the same scale, say 100%, the snipping tool works fine. It's only when one of them is different that the snipping tool doesn't work. Also, it doesn't matter if it's three monitors. This happens to me when I have only two monitors connected. I'm just using my current setup as an example.

This has been a problem since Windows 11 was released.

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Anonymous
2023-10-10T02:42:43+00:00

I might have found a quick fix to this issue. I just 'repair' and 'reset' my 'Snipping Tool', and now it can screenshot the entire screen correctly.

Apps>Installed Apps>Snipping Tool

Under Reset, Use the 'Reset" and 'Repair'.

Hope it helps.

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-01-25T18:46:12+00:00

    I did occur unfortunately in Win10 as well.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-01-24T09:31:15+00:00

    Over a year later and this is still an issue. As others have said this was never a problem on W10. Add to this the major problems with screen scaling and legacy graphical objects in Office apps and I've begrudgingly just put all my screens to 100% for now. There is altogether far too much that's broken when we try to use screen scaling and multiple monitors.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-01-23T17:42:40+00:00

    Hey guys, I use Greenshot, it is free and work much better that snipping tool on Win 11. Here is a link: Greenshot (getgreenshot.org)

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