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My Snip tool used to bring the image I captured in a pop up automatically, that I could edit when using the windows key & Ctrl S. It no longer does this? Is there a setting I need to change? I have to actually open the Snip Tool Menu to get this to work now. Not sure if some update was done by my IT people that changed this.
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I was going INSANE because I love and use the snip app a lot. I tried all of the fixes I saw in this thread, and nothing was working. Lo'-and-behold I had NOTIFICATIONS TURNED OFF! How could I not have thought to check there first? I never turned them off, so why would I look there? Maybe on one of the recent updates they got turned off? Anyway, sometimes the obvious answer is the answer....or at least it was for me!
Excellent, glad it worked for you too!
Mike LRD, you are a genius. Although my route to Set Default was different, I got there in the end, thanks to you. It's now working perfectly, with the snip popping up straight away. Thanks for providing the solution that worked for me and the straightforward instructions.
I fixed it as follows:
- Start > All Apps > Scroll down to snipping tool
- right-click on snipping tool > More > App Settings
- click on "set Default apps"
- scroll down to Snipping Tool and click on it
- scroll down to the section that says "MS-SCREENSKETCH" and click on it
- select the option that says snipping tool and that has the snipping tool icon
- click "Set Default"
- close window
- restart snipping tool
Now whenever I take a snip the window to edit, highlight, crop is available by clicking the snip icon on the task bar.
There is a fix. Revert back to the older snipping tool.
Agree, I don't want the added step of reopening my snipping tool to copy what I captured. It's added time and clicks. Not a good change.
