Snipping tool can capture the active Start Menu

[Orbital Shark]

As small as this sounds.....i've just found a way to get 'Snipping Tool' to capture the Start Menu.

There are many reasons that users would want to use the Snipping Tool, the main reason is to capture small 'Snippets' of the desktop in it's current user state.

If you right-click the 'Snipping Tool' shortcut on the Start Menu and select Open then the Start Menu actually stays active, allowing for capture of any part of the Start Menu.

Hope this is usefull for some people

 

[Airbot]

Or you could open the snipping tool, click New so it unfreezes the screen, click on the start menu or any other context menu/menu to show it and press Ctrl+Prt Scrn.

 

[swarfega]

ahh!, Nice find!

 

[sup3rsprt]

It works.

There's another tool you might like called Cropper. It can do this too, with alt+printscrn

 

[Orbital Shark]

LOL Aaron, very true......And i thought i found it with pure hard detective work :roflmao:

 

[imacken]

MS OneNote (Office 2007) does this with a key press!

 

[Nikilet]

My snipping tool is not working for some reason. I've tried everything suggested here.

I can take a normal screenshot, but not a menu.

After I click the ESC, then open the menu I want and click Ctrl+PrtScreen -- nothing hsppens. I triped right click/open and that didn't work either.

 

[oscer1]

are you trying to get it like post#3