Windows Vista: Snipping Tool the Built-in Screen Capture Utility
Windows Vista Ultimate, Enterprise, Business and Home Premium editions comes with a screen capture utility called Snipping Tool. With the snipping tool you have four options for screen capture and they are:
- Free-form Snip: Draw an irregular line, such as a circle or a triangle, around an object.
- Rectangular Snip: Draw a precise line by dragging the cursor around an object to form a rectangle.
- Window Snip: Select a window, such as a browser window or dialog box, that you want to capture.
- Full-screen Snip: Capture the entire screen when you select this type of snip.
The Snipping tool can be found in Startmenu> Programs> Accessories> Snipping Tool. If you are not able to find the snipping tool then you need to install it.
How to enable or install Snipping tool?
1. Go to Startmenu> Settings> Control Panel> Programs and Features, here click “Turn Windows Feature on or off” in the left had sidebar.
2. Now in the window that pops up enable “Table PC Optional Components” check box, that’s it you have installed snipping tool.
Have you used this tool before? If yes did you find this utility useful?
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I do take screen captures frequently, this should be really useful for me.
this tool is cool . Initially i was not aware of it . But now i use it frequently .
[...] talks of the built-in Screen capturing utility of Vista. I am still on Windows XP and I am really keen to know as to how many of you have upgraded to vista [...]
Cool! I’ve been using SnagIt for a couple of years now. It does almost everything you need to do with your screen grabs: simple editings, adding text, saving as web formats, sending to IM or eMail client, etc.
Will give this Snipping Tool a try. But I’m pretty sure MS wouldn’t make a FireFox extention for it.
Jimbo-
Currently I am using fastcone screen capture utility which was once a free software. I wish if MS would make firefox extension.
Wow.. I never knew Vista had it. Seems like a Snagit replacement for me!