The Snipping Tool first introduced in Windows XP Tablet edition experience pack and now part of Windows Vista is a useful tool to capture and copy a portion of your computer screen to paste into blogs and documents.
(note: To install snipping tool in Windows Vista go to the Control panel choose Programs and features, Click on Turn Windows Features on or off, check the box next to Tablet PC Optional Components in the popup. Click OK, once installed snipping tool will show up in your accesories folder.)
It is a basic replacement for the Printscreen method of copying and pasting a screen which is not as granular and gives you a larger item when you paste it. I've seen lots of questions about how to get this functionality under the regular XP version. Snippy is the answer.
The free tool Snippy puts an icon of a pair of scissors in your task tray and when clicked on gives you a pencil cursor that you can use your mouse to trace around the area you want to clip and copy with a mouse click so you can paste it into any type of document. There is no installation required for Snippy, you just save the file and click on it to run. You can even just save it to your desktop so you can have it handy.
You can download and find out more about Snippy from here.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Download Pick: Snippy for Windows XP Snipping Tool
5 comments:
great tool for those of us stuck in xp for legacy tool support for many hours a day ... just a quic .exe execute with no install. don't want it anymore ? close it and delete the .exe ..
Love this program!!!!!!
Way better than Microsoft's snipping tool. It doesn't take as long to load up and it automatically places the image in the clipboard.
Woooowwww, GREAT Tool, love this program, is easy, no install, a wonderful solution.
Simply to said, super light ,no installation, support both freehand and rectangular screen shot, less than 100kb. Superb tool!
Works great! Just perfect for getting a quick image off a web page or any screen image.
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