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
    2023-09-08T16:18:23+00:00

    That's not a fix, that's a work around.

    And many people, including myself in my original post, point out that it works if the scaling is the same across all monitors. In my post I specifically point out the problem when the scaling is different. I'm using a MS Surface with a 15" 3K, 150% is the recommended scale that Windows 11 recommends on HW made by Microsoft. This never should have been a thing in Windows 11. It worked fine in 10.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-02-15T15:53:21+00:00

    Instead of scaling the second monitor, set the resolution to lover. In that way, the snipping tool works.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-10-10T20:34:57+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.

    Wow hey, this actually worked. Even when my primary monitor is at a different scale.

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