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Install or Enable Snipping Tool in Windows 7 & Vista

Install or Enable Snipping Tool in Windows 7 & Vista

Beginning from Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, all Windows and Windows Server operating system comes built-in with a free screen capture or screenshot utility named Snipping Tool. Snipping Tool is available as a standard feature in Windows Vista Home Premium, Business, Enterprise, Ultimate edition, and all editions for later Windows versions such as Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 and etc. It should be installed by default by each supported Windows edition installation as standard feature, and can be found under Accessories or Windows Accessories folder. However, for some reason, some Windows system does not load this useful screen shot feature, but you can always install or enable this feature manually.

Snipping Tool actually has available for Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 since a while ago. Thus, Microsoft is kind of porting the Snipping Tool from Tablet PC to Windows for desktop and notebook usage. Hence, do not surprise when the guide asks you to enable Tablet-PC Optional Components later.

Snipping Tool is integrated natively with Windows since Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 and later. In these operating system, just search for Snipping Tool in order to start using it.

Here’s how you can reveal the Snipping Tool in Windows, if it’s not yet enabled in your system:

  1. Click on the Start button, and go to Control Panel.
  2. Click on Programs link.
  3. Click on Turn Windows features on or off link. If User Account Control pops up for confirmation, click on Continue button.
  4. Scroll down the list of features in Windows Features dialog window, tick the check box for Tablet-PC Optional Components to enable and show the Snipping Tool in Vista.

    Is Snipping Tool available in Windows 7?

  5. Click OK when done.

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Snipping Tool is a standard application installed on all workstations. To open it click Start>All Programs>Snipping Tool

Is Snipping Tool available in Windows 7?

Click on the arrow next to New and select one of the four options:

Free Form 

Is Snipping Tool available in Windows 7?

Rectangle 

Is Snipping Tool available in Windows 7?

Window 

Is Snipping Tool available in Windows 7?

Full Screen (includes toolbar) 

Is Snipping Tool available in Windows 7?

To take a snip of a menu:

  1. Open Snipping Tool.  Press Esc and then open the menu you would like to capture.
  2. Pres Ctrl+Print Scrn.
  3. Click on the arrow next to New and select Free-form, Rectangular, Window or Full-screen.
  4. Take a snip of the menu.

After taking the snip there are several tools for modifying the image.

Highlighter 

Is Snipping Tool available in Windows 7?

Pen   

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Eraser 

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Finally to save the image click on 

Is Snipping Tool available in Windows 7?

How to print a screenshot:

  1. Open the file from wherever you saved it into Windows Photo Viewer (by default)
  2. Click Print to open the Print dialog and proceed to choose the desired printer
  3. Delete the file when you are done or save it to H: drive for long term storage

How do I use Snipping Tool in Windows 7?

Press Ctrl + PrtScn keys. The entire screen changes to gray including the open menu. Select Mode, or in earlier versions of Windows, select the arrow next to the New button. Select the kind of snip you want, and then select the area of the screen capture that you want to capture.

Does Windows 7 Home Basic have Snipping Tool?

Windows 7 Home Basic does not have Snipping tool. If you want the similar tool, you can get it on internet.

Does Windows 7 have screen shot?

Windows 7 / Vista Press PrintScreen on your keyboard (or,PrtScr) to capture your entire screen. To capture only the active window, press Alt + PrintScreen on your keyboard.