I've come to rely on the Snipping Tool (both Win7 & Vista). I just had a new Win7 computer built. Snipping (6.1.7601) appears to work for selecting, but the "Save Snip" button or File/SaveAs don't ask where to save. When exiting "Do you want to save . . . ", but no prompt asking where, filename, extension, etc.
I searched for "capture". That used to be the default filename, but can't find.
Sure sounds like it's broken - but in the mean time you will probably find your snips in your "My Documents" folder (try sort by date).
Thanks, CountryBumkin, for your quick reply.
Nothing was found in My Documents, but I searched both C-drive & D-drive & found the snips with filenames like:37a0cf5991eb27ece052d61295104dc2.png
& bdf89642631fc7d8d2d187a8b3d3a3ca.png (not the familiar "capture.xxx")
located in C:\Users\[me]\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\wdfhy9vg.default\thumbnails\
Snip Options don't show a choice for destination. I've always used .jpg instead of .png, but that's not really a concern.
I've always used Firefox browser "plain vanilla", but I can't find any options that would control snip output.
If you can open the Snip program, click on Options and make sure you don't have "Hide Options" checked.
The Snip program copies to the clipboard then to wherever you "save as". Perhaps Clipboard is broken.
Do you have the file "Clip.exe" in your Windows/System32 folder?
Options doesn't show "Hide Options".
Clip.exe is in Windows/System32 folder.
I can paste a snip into Word. See attached. So clipboard isn't broken.
I've always used Firefox browser pretty much "plain vanilla". It was installed when I got my new computer yesterday. I've looked around & can't find any Firefox options that might control snip output or otherwise interfere with its performance.
You might be able to swap the .exe with a different copy to see if the file is messed up. I have never seen this issue personally and I use it a lot. Also, if I am correct, the Snip It tool is a portable application, it might be applicable to try and copy your .exe for that app onto a flash drive and launch it from a secondary computer to see if it yields the same results...
I searched for SnippingTool.exe & found 2 locations, both with same created/modified dates:
· C:\Windows\System32
· C:\Windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-s.....
Do I understand correctly that SnippingTool.exe can be copied to any location (even a thumb drive as you suggested) & run on any Win7 computer? What about my Vista laptop?
I failed to mention initially that all my programs/applications are on C: and all data is on D: Searching other websites for solutions, I discovered that the problem might be caused by registry pointers to "My Pictures". I've also discovered that my C-Drive contains "Pictures" ("Documents", etc) & my D-Drive contains "My Pictures" ("My Documents", etc). Is that confusing the system? One thing that I've learned over the years is to stay away from registers. In fact, I don't even know how to get to them to see what they show.
I've attached several .docx files into which I've pasted Snips, including excerpts from the other forum. Hopefully, they will provide a more complete picture of my situation.
Go to your local disk C:\ | Windows | System32 -- find SnippingTool.exe, it is an application @420kb and it is stand alone (portable). My theory is that your version may be corrupt, or it is in conflict with a different Windows component. Test 1 = test current copy on different machine. Test 2 = Test different copy on your machine.
Regarding your file structure, it should not matter because the save button acts as a "save as" requesting where to save the file.
I really have no clue to if it runs on Vista, I never used Vista even when it was a thing. I would assume yes. But, most Windows systems has it by default, so technically it would be unneeded to have a copy on a thumb drive. You can click the start menu and in the search bar simply type "snip" and it will almost always show up.
Via regedit, I discovered that, in the registry:
"HKEY_CURRENT-USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders" &
"HKEY_CURRENT-USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders" both referenced "My Documents", "My Music", "My Pictures" & "My Videos" in E-Drive, which is my DVD drive. It is my understanding that "User Shell Folders" takes precedence over "Shell Folders".
I have no idea how that happened. Even tho' (I assume) the snipping tool only uses My Pictures, I changed all 4 reference in both locations to D-Drive, which is my datadrive.
My Snipping Tool is now working correctly.
Thanks Nedly & CountryBumpkin for your replies.
Chances are if the Snipping Tool is not saving, you have deleted your My Pictures folder in your My Documents. Easiest fix is to create a new folder called, guess what - My Pictures - and that should solve it.:)
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