What happened to my Snipping Tool?

[Kari]

Hi geeks and gurus.

I'm using Snipping Tool quite a lot. Just late yesterday evening I had to make some snips. This morning Snipping Tool is no more anywhere to find. I mean, the icon in Quick Launch is suddenly a generic one, clicking it gives the error message "Windows can not find ..."

Start Menu > All Programs > Accesories, where you normally find the Snipping Tool, has all the other shortcuts but Snipping Tool is missing.

I would not like to do a system restore or repair installation only for this. Any ideas?

Mostly I'm wondering how could this happen? I am not one of those users deleting files and programs accindentally, normally I am quite careful.

Kari

 

[Tews]

Kari... have you checked in windows/system32 folder?? If it is still there, it should be a simple matter of creating a shortcut and pinning it to the taskbar....

 

[Kari]

Tews, thanks. I just can not understand why I did not check it in the first place. Of course it was there...

Mystery remains: how did it disappear from the Accesories menu and Quick Launch, all by it self?

Kari

 

[Tews]

Gremlins Kari ... gremlins!

 

[nicco]

windows 7 sniping tool/thanks

Thank you TEWS you helped me a lot.

 

[mickey megabyte]

maybe it snipped itself?

 

[jpaul3]

What happened to the snippet tool?

I cannot find the snippet tool. I did look under Windows/System 32. I did a "search" on my C-drive and nothing showed. I checked the Microsoft web site and found nothing related to downloading the Snippet Tool.

How do I get this handy tool back?

Thanks,
John

 

[Bongo]

I cannot find the snippet tool. I did look under Windows/System 32. I did a "search" on my C-drive and nothing showed. I checked the Microsoft web site and found nothing related to downloading the Snippet Tool.

How do I get this handy tool back?

Thanks,
John

Search for SnippingTool.exe in the Start Menu search box & see if it's there.
If not try this http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1538-sfc-scannow-command-system-file-checker.html
Jerry

 

[jpaul3]

What happened to the snippet tool?

Thanks Jerry,

I did as you suggested - I did a 'search' for the snipping tool.exe and for the SFC / SCANNOW. Both results were zero. I found another link in the discussion and tried the Elevated Command Prompt by going to Start, Accessories, RIGHT-CLICK on the Command Promt and choosing Run as Administrator. After C:\Windows\system32 I typed in snippingtool.exe.

I thought my screen froze up on me - went pail white - then realized the Snipping Tool was activated.

Had to PIN TO TASK BAR. I don't see it anywhere else and if I unpin, it is gone and I then run in the Run Command -snippingtool.exe - and it comes back.

Wasn't the snipping tool under the Accessories originally?

Not sure if this solved the total problem, but at least it is a quick way of getting the snipping tool back in use. I hope this may help some others along the way.

 

[Bongo]

Thanks Jerry,

I did as you suggested - I did a 'search' for the snipping tool.exe and for the SFC / SCANNOW. Both results were zero. I found another link in the discussion and tried the Elevated Command Prompt by going to Start, Accessories, RIGHT-CLICK on the Command Promt and choosing Run as Administrator. After C:\Windows\system32 I typed in snippingtool.exe.

I thought my screen froze up on me - went pail white - then realized the Snipping Tool was activated.

Had to PIN TO TASK BAR. I don't see it anywhere else and if I unpin, it is gone and I then run in the Run Command -snippingtool.exe - and it comes back.

Wasn't the snipping tool under the Accessories originally?

Not sure if this solved the total problem, but at least it is a quick way of getting the snipping tool back in use. I hope this may help some others along the way.

Well it's good to hear you got it going and yes it was originally under Accessories I don't understand where it went, other than doing a Repair Install http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/3413-repair-install.html or of Fresh Install I am at a loss.
Here is a nice little screenshot tool I use it all the time and you can put it in your startup folder and it will start with Windows Download Shotty 2.0.2 Free - Tiny but impressive screenshot utility - Softpedia
Jerry

 

[boohbah]

try this when the snipping tool is on the taskbar ,right click it select p[roperties and then the open file location button,this will show where it is, then right click the snipping tool where you find it then select pin to start menu .that ought to do it.

 

[DragonPoet]

Mystery remains: how did it disappear from the Accesories menu and Quick Launch, all by it self?

Kari

Windows Update maybe? Could it have updated the tool, thus making the links unavailable?




...just realized that the original post date was back in 2009! wow... I'm a little late on that one. Way to go DragonPoet, way to go.

 

[jpaul3]

What happened to the snippet tool?

Thanks again Jerry,

I've downloaded the Shotty (no pun intended ) program and will see how I like it.

Thanks for the Tips,
John