Whenever Snipping Tool is open, my right click fails in all other apps

[miloshapiro]

This is going to sound bizarre but it's absolutely true and easily recreated.
I love the Snipping Tool and use it a lot.
But any time that program is open, my right-click fails for all other applications.
Office, Photoshop, Firefox...right click will be dead until I "X" out of Snipping Tool
and then it magically works again. What could be causing this? I've looked under
"Options" and don't see any reference to right-click amongst any of them.
Thank you!

PS: I'm on Win 7 with a 64 bit machine.
PPS: If there's a different category than "Software" that I should be putting
this on or a different forum completely, please advise, but this sounded like
a possible right place...at least to start.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Hello mate now you have XP listed as the OS is this right??

Use this mate System Info - See Your System Specs

 

[miloshapiro]

Hello ICIT2LOL. I'd prefer not to download any programs just to solve this. I don't know what you mean about having XP as the system OS. This has been a windows7 machine since i bought it about 5-6 years ago and this problem with the right-clicking only started about 6 months ago.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Sorry mate I opened system specs at lower left and it had XP OS

Just what do you mean by a right click because I have been a great fan of this feature and never had to use it?

Pardon the short reply but my main machine keeps dropping replies

 

[miloshapiro]

I mean it as literally as it sounds. If Snipping Tool is open, right-click ceases to work in ANY other program. Not outlook, word, excel, photoshop, firefox...something about snipping tool being open completely disables my right click on my mouse. It just does nothing. But if I close Snipping Tool, all is well again.

 

[Bertison]

Just tried that and miloshapiro is right: but that is because, while Snipping Tool is open, it is meant to be used, contents snipped saved, and Snipping Tool closed. A right click simply results in the Snipping Tool cursor (+) coming onscreen, ready to drag around the object to be snipped and saved to wherever you wish.

In other words, right click is meant to be inoperative while Snipping Tool is open.

And ICIT2LOL is right about your System specs: you have XP listed as your OS.

 

[miloshapiro]

Interesting theory, but i've been using snipping tool for many years and this problem only started in the last year. Took me a while to figure out WHAT was going on...i even rebooted for a while thinking my computer was seriously hosed. Eventually, somehow, figured out that snipping tool was the problem. I sometimes do a variety of things and use that snip so i don't want to close it. Or i plan on using it a bunch that day so it's easier to keep it open. seems a strange flaw that it would do that.
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Side note: I just found where in my profile the default was XP (can't imagine that I set that...why would I ever have started posting on a Seven forum if I didn't have 7, lol). I edited it and hopefully this post will start showing me as a Win7 user)

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Ok mate take a look at a little ditty I did up for this purpose as 7 OS tells us nothing much at all
SYSTEM SPECS


Now before we can help we do need to know what is in your machine so please do this
System Info - See Your System Specs


or either enter the specs of your system in your forum profile the specs will appear when we click on that little box bottom left of the post screen it is for me the preferable option as it is easy. As you may appreciate it is very hard when you don’t know what one is working with for example a diesel or petrol engine.

　(pretyped to save time)

 

[Bertison]

Maybe I'm dumb but I don't see this as a problem. Why would you want to right click when Snipping Tool (ST) is open? The usage of ST is to draw around the object you wish to copy, hit 'File' --> 'Save As' or 'Send To' and save or send the object to a location on your PC. There are also Edit, Copy, Tools and Help features available.

I have never been able to use right OR left click when ST is open. Until your Thread, I had not even considered it. There really is no use for it. Open ST - use ST - copy, edit, save, whatever, close ST.

 

[miloshapiro]

Understood...and done now using the IE option to prefill. Hope it helps you come up with a theory.

 

[miloshapiro]

to Bertison, sometimes I want Snipping Tool to stay open because I plan on posting that picture again someplace within the next hour but don't really want to save it as a .jpg permanently. Other times, I'm going to be using ST a lot to do lots of snips and don't want to have to keep opening and closing the program every time when just clicking "New" is faster.

I find it hard to believe your left-click doesn't work with ST is open. How could you tell an email, word doc, etc where you wanted to paste the image if you couldn't left click?

While it's certainly possible to close and reopen ST with each usage and while I could save every image to hard drive rather than keeping ST open for later usage, to me this really is a bug. There should be no reason I should have to close ST to make right-click work in other applications.

 

[MourningStar]

miloshapiro, your experience with ST is a non-issue. it is functioning as designed. what you want may be done with another program. cheers.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
If you have word open it has it's own clip board which will retain more items than just 1 like snipping tool or even ms paint.
Home section clipboard listing open it and copy away

 

[miloshapiro]

MourningStar, I'm surprised by your response. If Excel told you that when it's open, right-click doesn't work in any other program, you'd think that was a huge bug. If IE did that to other programs, you'd switch to Firefox or Chrome. I don't know why you think that's an acceptable thing for ST to do to unrelated programs. I may have to live with it, but I definitely consider it a bug.

Thrashzone, can you explain more clearly? I suppose I could paste my item into a word document and then copy it from there if need be so that I can close Snipping Tool, but that doesn't sound like what you're saying. I do see the option off the "Clipboard" section on the "Home" menu, but that's only good if I'm pasting specficially into Word repeatedly. I might paste into Photoshop or Outlook, etc. Also, oddly, if you have that Clipboard section open when you do ST-Copy, it doesn't add it to the clipboard. The clipboard has to be closed when you say Copy or it doesn't show up. At least in Word 2007.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

to Bertison, sometimes I want Snipping Tool to stay open because I plan on posting that picture again someplace within the next hour but don't really want to save it as a .jpg permanently. Other times, I'm going to be using ST a lot to do lots of snips and don't want to have to keep opening and closing the program every time when just clicking "New" is faster.

I find it hard to believe your left-click doesn't work with ST is open. How could you tell an email, word doc, etc where you wanted to paste the image if you couldn't left click?

While it's certainly possible to close and reopen ST with each usage and while I could save every image to hard drive rather than keeping ST open for later usage, to me this really is a bug. There should be no reason I should have to close ST to make right-click work in other applications.

Well mate you doenm save it to desktop then just delete it later it isn't rocket science.

Edit: I meant to ask why are you using new snip?? are you doing one then wanting another one because I just click the taskbar icon to do that - new come s up as default in Windows 10.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
I believe you'd need to change how you copy
Highlight then right click to copy
Or use the print screen key board key to copy the entire screen
Either should show up if word and the office clip board side window is opened in advance of doing either of the copy methods I described.

That I've noticed actually pasting isn't required
But if you do just select it and then paste in the doc file.

 

[miloshapiro]

ICIT2LOL, I'm in Win7 not Win10 so i don't know if that's a difference, but snipping tool is not in my taskbar as an icon. I have to go to the start button and select the program each time i use it. Not horrible, but if I know I'm going to be using it repeatedly through the day, it seems silly to have to close it. I don't close Word or Excel or Outlook every time I use them if I know I'll be using them again. No, it's not rocket science to save every image I think I'll use 2 or 3 times and go out and paste them, but it's about three more steps each time if I could just leave ST open. And again, this used to work.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
I use snipping tool and it's mostly pinned to my start menu list in 7 I believe one could assign a keyboard combination to open snipping tool too.
10 I pin it to the taskbar.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

ICIT2LOL, I'm in Win7 not Win10 so i don't know if that's a difference, but snipping tool is not in my taskbar as an icon. I have to go to the start button and select the program each time i use it. Not horrible, but if I know I'm going to be using it repeatedly through the day, it seems silly to have to close it. I don't close Word or Excel or Outlook every time I use them if I know I'll be using them again. No, it's not rocket science to save every image I think I'll use 2 or 3 times and go out and paste them, but it's about three more steps each time if I could just leave ST open. And again, this used to work.

No mate what I was saying was that as TZ says I pin my snip to the taskbar and when you open it in 7 the whole screen goes a milky appearance and you snip what you want in 10 you open snip but then have to pick New as the screen does not go that milky colour in 10 automatically.
Personally I much prefer the 7 version as the snip in 10 is double handling in my mind
I actually think the feature is brilliant and I have hundreds of snips that I use when posting to stuff that comes up on a regular basis ie how to set the updates etc etc
Now if you typed snip and sent it to the start menu then there should be a option to pin it to the taskbar. I cannot show you from this machine because it is running 10 but the pic is from my tester machine taken with my camera sorry for poor res.