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Windows 10 Is Finally Getting An Improved Screenshot Tool (theverge.com)
Today, Microsoft released Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17661 to insiders, which includes a new screenshot experience for the upcoming major update. The Verge reports: Screen Sketch, previously bundled with the Windows Ink feature of Windows 10, is now being made into a separate app that can take screenshots and provide options to annotate them. Microsoft has experimented with a variety of screen snipping tools over the years, but a new winkey + shift + S keyboard shortcut will now bring up an area select tool to snip a screenshot and share it instantly from the clipboard. The app will also trigger a notification so you can annotate the screenshot and share it. You can also replace the print screen button on a keyboard with this feature, making the button a lot more useful than today's winkey + printscreen combo.
Windows already has the ability to run Greenshot. So... thanks Microsoft?
All these AI stories are completely ridiculed by Microsoft innovative software: we had previously a new version of Paint, and now the ability to take screenshots. Wow! Microsoft, please, don't be too hard on competition.
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
Is this a rebrand of Snipping Tool, or is this a whole new thing? Snipping tool was very nice.
Not sure if the artcle author is quite up to date, as I have been using winkey-shift-s since I was upgraded to Windows 10 quite some time ago.
The Windows-s (no shift) worked in Windows 7 with OneNote installed, and I assumed it was the OneNote function that had changed shortcut key on Win10.
Who wants to snip with a window with a mouse, when the built-in function Windows has always had works just fine? Granted, smaller clips require Paint, but Alt + PrtScn => Window Key + R => mspaint => Enter => Ctrl+V is second nature to me.
Seriously?
Have you people never heard of Snipping Tool?
Bundled with Windows since at least 7.
Takes screenshots, partial screenshots, saves as PNG, allows you to draw over them, emails, puts in clipboard.
It's probably one of the best features of the default Windows installs, as sad as that is.
Paint Shop Pro 5 FTW.
Waterfox - a Firefox fork with legacy extension support, security updates and better privacy by default.
Greenshot. Is there any reason for Microsoft to even begin competing?
Wow. The screenshot tool is now an experience.
So cool.... or not.
You know, that when Don Normal and his group at Apple back in the '80s coined then term User Experience, they defined it as:
It goes beyond the user interface of a piece of software to include also how the product is packaged, sold, bought, installs; how the user manual is written (remember user manuals? ;-P ), how to get support and support is done, and then how dispose of install media and how to uninstall the software.
Please stop this nonsensical misuse of the term!
My next rant is going to be about: "Solution". Until then: Cheers!
"We mustn't be caught by surprise by our own advancing technology" -- Aldous Huxley
OneNote (desktop not the "tablet" abomination) had (has) a perfectly good snipping tool. However from Win7->8 they changed the combination from WinKey-S to Win-Shift-S (and used the former for search). It was bad for a while but got used to it.
Now with some W10 update (aniversary, FC? doesn't matter) they took the Win-Shift-S for their stupid screenshot tool (which when triggered looks exactly the same as OneNote's except that nothing happens afterwards which makes you think something is messed up with OneNote). And while you can disable completely Win-Shift-S you can't assign it back to OneNote (and changing OneNote's hotkeys is something well hidden in registry anyway).
Alt-PrtScrn for the window, Shift-PrtScrn for the whole screen. Paste it into Paint (or whatever) and do whatever to it.
Always hated sitting down to someone else's Windows computer and having heaven knows what third party tool pop up when using those key combos. At least they are using a new key combo ...
Years ago I started assigning a keyboard shortcut to Snipping Tool, which allows you to do pretty much everything they are describing. Copies to clipboard, or you can save in a couple of formats. And... annotate! (at least with highlighting and lines, would be good if they added text).
Rt-click Snipping Tool icon, in start menu, Open File Location, get Properties in shortcut, define a shortcut key combo.
One other nice thing with Snipping Tool is you can define a capture delay. So if you want to screen-cap a menu option that would otherwise lose focus and disappear by hitting a key sequence, you can set Snipping Tool to fire at a set time delay so you can mouse through and get it looking like you want before the screen capture hits.
You can select the area of the screen to capture, no more capturing everything, pasting into Paint, and cropping.
This "Innovation" has been around since at least Windows 7.
Screenshots do have their place, but when trying to figure out bugs, there are a couple of things that makes them problematic:
* Can't copy text from them to paste into your search box, SQL editor, etc.
* Users only snipping what they think is important, not other on-screen info ("this field does not work!!!!one")
* Some people reduce the size of the image (for e-mailing), making the text unreadable.
* And it doesn't show steps the user took to get to the error point.
Hopefully someday someone will come up with a better app to help users and testers with bug reports... (and user training material).
For interest's sake: are there any other uses for screenshots?
Free, as in your money being freed from the confines of your account.
Follow through to the actual Microsoft post instead of the intermediate blog, and you can see what's happened. They've taken the tool and made it its own app, so with its own software update cycles etc., showing up in alt-tab...a few things. Otherwise it's not much different, but that's fine - this does seem to be an improvement to me. I mean, it's not life changing but it does make things a bit more organised.
Wow screenshot ability! If only they could work out how to add the "delete" context menu item to the candy crush ad in the start menu, then we'd really have a useable version of windows 10!
I've always found it ironic that an operating system that began its long dubiously glorious reign on the back of the self-documenting capability of GUIs has evolved to have more inscrutable fucking hotkeys than I can possibly remember. Give me a GUI button for it or give me death.
I agree: "Just stop messing with the EXISTING stuff. STOP!" That is one more crazy issue with Windows 10.
Microsoft has become AMAZINGLY wacky. It seems that no one is in control, or even doing any coordinating. Apparently Microsoft wants Windows 10 to copy the abuse of Google's Android. The result is that Microsoft abuses customers and users.
Some of the huge number of stories:
Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made.
7 ways Windows 10 pushes ads at you...
Microsoft is infesting Windows 10 with annoying ads
Years of bugginess: Windows 10 bugs
Problems, limited to this year: Windows 10 problems 2018
Update problems, limited to this year: Windows 10 update problems 2018
My opinion: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is not capable of managing Microsoft.
I got it switched back to Win+S using instructions from this page. I think the second answer on that page was sufficient.
I do.
windows-shift-s - drag the area you want - ctrl-V
Granted, if you need the entire current window, fine.
In my case, I pretty much never want the entire window, so I have used the snipping tool since I discovered it.
I actually had to read everything here to realize (again) how backwards Windows is. OSX has come with Grab that dates all the way back to NeXT. So I guess we can welcome MS users to the 1990s.
The cesspool just got a check and balance.
I generally prefer the use (or at least availability of) keyboard shortcuts, but there's just too much going on in a relatively modern, graphical environment. Having multiple ways of accessing the same functionality may seem redundant to some, at a glance, but is incredibly useful at times. Alt+PrtScr is handy (captures just the current window), as is Alt+WinKey+PrtScr (same, but saves it to a file automatically on Windows 8+)
There is no XUL, only WebExtensions...
I don't even mess with the built-in "snipping" toy WIndows has, I just use Snagit.
I've written plenty of documentation and "THIS is how you do it!" emails with it, it's an IT nerd's best friend.
The "Civilized World" jumped the shark ca. 1973.
I still remember these with utter lack of fondness.
It just gives me a blue rectangle. Is that right?
Knowing what you are doing has NOTHING to do with it. A person can "know what he is doing" and still be frustrated a keyboard full of hotkeys, for no other reason than he has poor recall. Rote memorization, which is all that remembering a bunch of fucking hotkeys is, is NOT the same as expertise.
hopefully it is just as awesome as when they âoeupgradedâ calc from the fast one to the new metro that takes a year to initially render.
Ok how about a usuable text editor? This company has billions of dollars but can't even create a simple usable text editor.
Or a usable text search. Holy shit why can't I search for simple text in any file? Are these people just impeciles?