Disabled Snipping Tool

[mitchell65]

One of my club members "suddenly" found that the Snipping Tool was not working. I advised them tto go to services and make sure that The PC Tablet Components option was checked. It wasn't so they checked it and on rebooting the PC the Snipping Tool worked again. Fine no probelm but it left a doubt in my mind. What's the connection between the Snipping Tool and the PC Tablet Components? Is that not an odd place to put the ST software? Just an idle query really!

 

[solarmystic]

That's a very queer observation mitchell65.

This is my Windows Features box:-



And when I type in 'Snipping Tool' into the Start menu, I get the following:-



So it appears I do not have the Tablet PC components checked but have the Snippin Tool anyway. Interesting.

 

[mitchell65]

Cracked it! My club mamber runs Vista not Win 7. Seems this anomaly was in Vista but was put right in Windows 7. Sorry forgot this member was on Vista. I wonder where the Snipping Tool software is located though?

 

[mitchell65]

Update: Have just discovered that the Snipping Tool originally came with a MS extension "Microsoft Experience pack for Tablet PC" which was introduced in 2007. So it's been around for over 5 years. That might explain the connection we see now! Or did with Vista.

 

[solarmystic]

Cracked it! My club mamber runs Vista not Win 7. Seems this anomaly was in Vista but was put right in Windows 7. Sorry forgot this member was on Vista. I wonder where the Snipping Tool software is located though?

Here:-

%windir%\system32\SnippingTool.exe

 

[mitchell65]

Thanks for that, makes sense of course. I will check with my members Vista setup just to ease my poor brain. Thanks for your import.

 

[whs]

There are quite a few of mysterious connections between services. The Vista/snipping tool dependency was a well known dependency. But others are less known. E.g. if you disable the defrag service (for example if you only have an SSD), you cannot shrink a partition with Disk Management - go figure.

Because of those examples and others I always recommend not to play around with the services. If you disable a service, you never know what secondary effects you might be getting.

 

[marsmimar]

There are quite a few of mysterious connections between services. The Vista/snipping tool dependency was a well known dependency. But others are less known. E.g. if you disable the defrag service (for example if you only have an SSD), you cannot shrink a partition with Disk Management - go figure.

Because of those examples and others I always recommend not to play around with the services. If you disable a service, you never know what secondary effects you might be getting.

+1

 

[mitchell65]

Yes I am in 100% agrement with the sentiment. Which makes it all the more odd as this particular lady (That's the Vista lady) member really doesn't ever touch anything on her PC unless she is certain what she is doing and she assured me she didn't know how to get tto the services so it is a bit of a mystery as to how the PC Tablet component got switched off in the first place. We may never know though I think she must have managed it somehow!

 

[whs]

Mitch, if I remember right, I think the tablet service was off by default if you did not have a tablet. Years back I was fighting the same battle because the snipping tool did not show up in Accessories.

 

[DustSailor]

Yes I am in 100% agrement with the sentiment. Which makes it all the more odd as this particular lady (That's the Vista lady) member really doesn't ever touch anything on her PC unless she is certain what she is doing and she assured me she didn't know how to get tto the services so it is a bit of a mystery as to how the PC Tablet component got switched off in the first place. We may never know though I think she must have managed it somehow!

you can turn it off via 'turn off windows features' < Control Panel\Programs\Programs and Features

She might have turned it off there, else someone else did.

 

[mitchell65]

But the Snipping Tool does not appear in the "Control Panel\Programs\Programs and Features". In Vista you can turn off the Snipping Tool by unchecking the PC Tablet Component option but this has not effect in Windows 7!

 

[DustSailor]

Ah, I suppose I thought you were talking about vista. Doesn't she have vista?

Cracked it! My club mamber runs Vista not Win 7. Seems this anomaly was in Vista but was put right in Windows 7. Sorry forgot this member was on Vista. I wonder where the Snipping Tool software is located though?

 

[mitchell65]

But the Snipping Tool does not appear in the "Programs and Features" in Vista or Windows 7. The only way to turn it off in Vista is to uncheck the PC Tablet Component entry. That is in the posts above and is why I started the thread in the first place!
See screenshot the Vista Progs and features window!

 

[DustSailor]

yessir. I wasn't offering a solution to your problem, merely stating that the lady could have disabled the snipping tool function by turning off tablet pc components in windows features. She said she never went to Services before, so I was offering up an alternative location where she could have turned the feature off. Sorry that my explaination was lacking.

 

[mitchell65]

yessir. I wasn't offering a solution to your problem, merely stating that the lady could have disabled the snipping tool function by turning off tablet pc components in windows features. She said she never went to Services before, so I was offering up an alternative location where she could have turned the feature off. Sorry that my explaination was lacking.

THat was my bad explanation not yours! The lady assured me that she had never seen the "Windows Features" before and certainly not the Services window. No one else has access to her PC.
But you and I know that the feature got turned off by human hand somehow, it will, perhaps, remain as one of lifes many mysteries.
Thanks for your import.