Why does my snipping tool no longer bring up the pop up image to edit?

Anonymous
2023-01-17T18:05:38+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2024-11-04T19:33:03+00:00

    I hope this helps someone - for me I had to turn 'do not disturb' off, even though the screenshot pop-up is set to come on when do not disturb is enabled.

    I didn't turn 'do not disturb' on that I know of, but Windows 11 thought I shouldn't be disturbed by trying to save my screenshot I guess...

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-10-29T00:53:11+00:00

    Thanks goodness, it works for me too! Thank you lifesaver!!!

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-09-20T14:44:02+00:00

    Correct, this is the actual fix we're all looking for. Fixed it today after a year of the issue.

    Open snipping tool, go to settings, turn OFF “Auto Save screenshots”

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-08-26T10:23:55+00:00

    Yes! Finally! This is the simple answer that actually works. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-08-08T15:26:55+00:00

    For anyone still experiencing this, I appear to have resolved it (for now at least, I haven't rebooted yet). Open the Snipping Tool from the Windows screen icon (i.e. not Windows key-Shift-S). Then click on the 3 dots at top right (when you mouse over, it says See More). Click on Settings. In my list the second option Automatically save screenshots was set to ON. Change the setting to OFF. Now when I use the Windows key-Shift-S, the screen grab remains on screen and allows me to edit it.

    Incredibly, the opposite has fixed it for me. I had turned off autosave, and now that I turn it back on, I get notifications again.

    Background: I've tried the default apps fix, the reset/restore, the reinstall, etc. All other things in this thread. Nothing helped.

    Turning on autosave fixed it.

    I tried turning off autosave again, and I again stopped getting notifications. Turning autosave on and off reliably fixes and breaks the notification functionality.

    I guess I'll have to manually clear out these useless files every once and a while, but at least my snipping tool is functioning again.

    I hope this post helps others with this incredibly annoying bug.

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