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   Dragonlair
   Member

   I just got started with Win 10. I needed the snipping tool today to prepare a few snippings to send to a game developer with one really WEIRD display issue.

   I clicked on the Snipping Tool that I've used for years and got a message that it was moving to a new location. It also "encouraged" the use of "Snip & Sketch".

   Where is the old tool moving? Is it moving out of Windows and being moved to an option app from the Microsoft Store?

   Are there things that the old tool can do but the new one cannot do (and vice versa)?

   Why is this change being made?

   BTW - I did realize today that Microsoft brought BACK The Windows Media Player that was not available with Win 8/8.1. I guess they realized THAT was a big goof! Is the Snipping Tool in that same vein - more popular than they want to believe?

   Posted 4 years ago #
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   mikiem2
   Moderator

   Microsoft has added quite a lot of inking capabilities to win10, & is adding more. I believe that's where they get the sketch in Snip & Sketch. On a pen-enabled tablet it's pretty cool. As far as being new, it's now an add-on app that's listed in the store, meaning it's stored with all the other store apps in the special folder, can be removed, factory reset etc. At one time there was a dialog that opened from the taskbar Ink icon that looks to me more like a music note, but now it shows me two choices, Whiteboard [collaboration] & Fullscreen snip, which opens a window showing everything on the screen, and can snip from that. Or I can hit the Windows key + Shift + S & the whole screen dims, & I can take a snip from that.

   support.microsoft[.]com/en-us/help/17207/windows-10-use-windows-ink

   Can't say how much snip has changed because I didn't use it.

   Posted 4 years ago #
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   Dragonlair
   Member

   OK, that makes some sense. My machine came with both and it's not clear at all anywhere with these apps what is an add-on and what is built-in.

   If I understand you right, they're kinda swapping them (at best). At the least, they're replacing Snip&Sketch for the Snipping Tool currently built-in. Whether the older tool will be offered in the store is another question.

   Thanks for the info. I tried to google and got almost no real information.

   Posted 4 years ago #

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