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. JuliaMarvin 22,275 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2025-06-19T07:22:56+00:00

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-06-19T05:58:52+00:00

    I had the same problem as the OP - the popup (which had always appeared when I snipped) was not appearing anymore. I restarted my computer, and the popup appeared again when I did a snip. Simple fix!

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-06-12T17:34:03+00:00

    I already figured that out and that is exactly what was happening.

    Thanks!!

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-05-31T18:04:55+00:00

    YES! That fixed it for me! I have a new laptop and am still tweaking the settings.

    Sometimes I just want to copy something, then have it on the screen to refer to for a moment, not save it. I had no idea it was saving all my screenshots to a folder! I've turned that off and cleaned up those files now.

    There used to be a keyboard shortcut to open the snipping tool after doing a screenshot, but I can't remember it and can't find it anywhere. Does anyone know what that was?

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-05-14T10:24:22+00:00

    Quite correct Siwarak. Certainly the notifications should be enabled. Your steps are for Windows 10 but replacing 'Snip & Sketch' with 'Snipping Tool', the steps are almost the same for Windows 11.
    But even if the notifications are disabled, when a screenshot is created with either a right-click on the taskbar icon (regardless of whether or not the editor window appears automatically - see my fix for that in my previous posting) or using WIn Key + Shift + "S" , it is still saved into the clipboard.

    Perhaps Kristen was assuming that this was not happening because of the lack of a notification which says 'Screenshot copied to clipboard'. But this is just a confirmation - the image is saved to the clipboard anyway.

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