• Patch Lady – Snipping tool removal?

    Posted on August 20, 2018 at 14:50 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    I’ve been living under a rock.  Or rather missed the announcement.  I spotted online a discussion about the potential removal of snipping tool in a future feature release of Windows 10.

    I’m concerned for several reasons:

    1.  It appears to me that you will need to download the app from the Microsoft store.  I don’t enable the store on business machines.  Currently snipping tool is built into the operating system.
    2. It appears that it will rely more on printscreen.  On different devices print screen is either in different places on the key board or in the case of the Lenovo Carbon X1 laptop, part of the adaptive keyboard experience – which normally means I can never figure out how to do it when I need it.
    3. Snipping tool is something that my users are used to, it works, it’s easy to find and get to.  I can’t even install the new screen sketch on my 1803 at the office because I’m not on an insider build.  So I can’t even start to try to roll it out slowly to folks.

    Thus snipping tool is always parked on the task bar on every computer so that everyone can use it and easily find it.  One can print from it (the enhancement in Windows 10) whereas in Windows 7 one couldn’t print.  But for many years it just worked with no fuss or failure.

    In looking through the feedback venue, there is even a feedback item asking to not remove the snipping tool.  (Hopefully everyone on 10 can log in and see that).

    So what do you think about snipping tool?  Will you be sad to see it go?

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