Screenshot program?

remover · Feb 21, 2025

need a recommendation for a basic screenshot program, please for windows 11 laptop, basic
I googled Snip, Greenshot, Lightshot, Lightshot...so far. Nothing fancy (what you see you can take a pic of) regards 24H2 (OS Build 26100.3194)

dacrone · Feb 21, 2025

why not just use printscreen that auto snips using the snipping tool... you use use autohotkey to create a shortcut that can be pinned to your taskbar if you dont want to press the keyboard key. winaero has one readily available, otherwise i'd make it real quick

.https://winaero.com/how-to-create-a-shortcut-to-take-a-screenshot-in-windows-10-using-built-in-screenshot-feature/

remover · Feb 21, 2025

ok dacrone, thanks - will give it a try. Can't get the auto hotkey to work? we pinned it to the taskbar, looking at settings. changed the windows settings, seems like the snipping tool does not like chrome? puts a circle around the 3 dots top far right.... thanks

dacrone · Feb 21, 2025

remover said:
Can't get the auto hotkey to work?

no i can make an AHK, but winaero already has one made. thats all his .exe is... its an ahk compiled to exe

remover said:
looking at settings. changed the windows settings

what settings did you change?

remover said:
seems like the snipping tool does not like chrome? puts a circle around the 3 dots top far right

not tracking what you're saying. the ahk will just take an entire screenshot, including taskbar and all. its not tied to one window/program like Alt+Prtsc is

remover · Feb 21, 2025

The 1st setting was to turn in on in settings.

remover · Feb 21, 2025

This waas the setting I turned ON in settings

remover · Feb 21, 2025

@dacrone I need to find a website with a test box to see this tool - I've been using IrfanView 64 since 1998.

dacrone · Feb 21, 2025

yeah you enable prntsc to take the screenshot. but not sure what you're talking about with chrome, nor with:

remover said:
find a website with a test box to see this tool

all it does is capture your screen and save it to your Pictures\Screenshots (unless you changed the snipping tool default location). you can open the output with any image viewer....

remover · Feb 21, 2025

I would like to crop it, I don't want to post a huge pic of something that's small - like everytime I hit print screen, I would get that circle around the 3 dots. I can live with that.... let me do some reading & testing it out. thank you for the help.... EDIT: see post 5 above -

dacrone · Feb 21, 2025

remover said:
I would like to crop it, I don't want to post a huge pic of something that's small - like everytime I hit print screen, I would get that circle around the 3 dots. I can live with that.... let me do some reading & testing it out. thank you for the help.... EDIT: see post 5 above -

ok made this real quick (ahk > exe). launches snipping tool screen capture selection. will dim screen and you highlight the portion you want screenshot and it will autosave to your default screenshots location (pictures\screenshots unless you changed it)

remover · Feb 21, 2025

It Works ! nice .zip you made !!!!!!!!! I was watching a youtube on sniptool... I had an incorect setting in Settings, ok.. don't worry about chrome, chrome is in a world of its own. Works very good + many thanks I never used a snip tool - came here in the cold right from Windows 7.......

remover · Feb 21, 2025

just a test of a random screenshot Edit works better with your .zip file - thanks again !!!!!!

glasskuter · Feb 21, 2025

The new snipping tool has been nothing but a PITA for me
For anyone who comes across this, another option is to use the old snipping tool from Windows 10. The only caveat is that once a screenshot is saved, you have to right click on screenshot and choose "edit in paint" if you want to mark it up. That's because the old snipping tool edited in Paint3D which we no longer have.
Here it is in my onedrive.
Be sure to read the readme file enclosed.

Microsoft OneDrive

1drv.ms

remover · Feb 22, 2025

Lost all my pic's out of my Screenshots, Photos, Gallery ?? I have backups ? just wondering if there hiding anyplace else?

Edit: well it's no-one's fault. I have a feeling there in there some place? Just thought I would toss this out - see if it happened to anyone else. ? It's a first for me.

glasskuter · Feb 22, 2025

When you go to save a screenshot, choose save as. It should show you the location where your screenshots are going and give you the opportunity to direct a different location where you want to save that particular screenshot. If you have saved your missing screenshots as .png files go to
C:\users\yourusename. In the search box type .png
I should search your entire user account and show you every .png file you have saved in your user account and its location.

dacrone · Feb 22, 2025

just open snipping tool > Settings > check to see where its saving them..

EDIT:
just because we're on the topic anyways, i just so happened to see this article just now
.https://www.howtogeek.com/windows-adding-video-cropping-to-snipping-tool/

Edwin · Feb 22, 2025

remover said:
need a recommendation for a basic screenshot program

ShareX

Kees · Feb 22, 2025

Greenshot

Somewhat older (09 Aug 2017), but still very usable. It is freeware (Open source).
I read somewhere in the Internet that in the program there would be advertising. I have never been able to discover any.

The program works perfectly. You can assign key combinations for complete window or define an area. You can specify what format to save in and the compression of jpgs.

Automatic saving is possible as well as repeating the last screenshot. You can specify what folder the screenshots have to be saved and what numbering should be used (in case of automatic saving). Very flexible.

Feuer · Feb 22, 2025

GitHub - henrypp/freeshooter: This is old-school tool for taking screenshots without bloatware features, simple as life, light as air (same as my other apps).

This is old-school tool for taking screenshots without bloatware features, simple as life, light as air (same as my other apps). - henrypp/freeshooter

github.com

Freeshooter is also a good one.

I am using windows' own screenshot tool with ahk script.

remover · Feb 22, 2025

Well I have a feeling there in here someplace, or there gone. I put a yellow folder in Pictures. When I right click & go to properties This is what I get: going have to come back: Its almost 9am. (I have backup's) Thanks for the info above...

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