Snipping tool crept off-screen - menu bar off-screen


bumgarb42

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I take a lot of screen snips using Snipping Tool.
I have the Snipping Tool's "Multiple Windows" setting enabled so that each click of New creates a new Snipping Tool "window".

I'm not sure when this started but I've only noticed it on Windows 11 and only with Snipping Tool.
My snipping tool "windows" are creeping up toward the top of the screen and eventually, the menu bar is off the screen.
Since the menu bar is off screen, I cannot click "New" or "Save", etc, and the ability to easily grab and move the "window" is also off screen.
Alt+Tab allows me to switch between the open "windows" but that doesn't help me with the menu bar being off-screen.
Since Cascading appears to be gone, my only choice is to Shift+RightClick > Move each instance which takes a lot of time when I have a lot of instances open.

To get it to temporarily stop, I have to close all instances of Snipping Tool, open a single copy, Move it to the middle of the screen, and close it to "reset" the "default" open position for Snipping Tool. I do not like having the default open location in the middle or lower screen because I then have to move the snips up to see them... and closing the snips towards the top of the screen resets the open location... and eventually, it creeps up and off the screen again.

Also, I cannot seem to force it / replicate it, but it happens frequently for me over time to the point of annoyance.

Is anyone else experiencing this?
Is there still a cascade feature hidden in Windows 11 somewhere?
Is there some alternate setting or other feature that might be helpful here?

Thanks!
 

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Yes.
I am having this problem too. Windows 11. The Snipping Tool dialog box creeps up the screen about 1/2in each new time it opens. Once the menu bar goes off the top of the screen, I 'right click' the icon in the task bar to select 'close', and the next time it's opened, the dialog box is back to center screen. Does anyone know why it's doing this yet?
 

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Can you use ALT + Spacebar, Move and then reposition with the cursor keys? You may have to click somewhere on the errant widow first, to give it focus.
 

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The above should work. Another way to accomplish that is to:

ALT TAB to select the snipping tool. WIN + {left arrow | right arrow} to move it to the left or right half of the screen.

Next, adjust the following features as necessary:

  • Automatically save screenshots (enable this)
  • Multiple windows (Disable this)
I do multiple screenshots at a time, but I don't need multiple instances of snipping tool open to do it. For the saving of files, you can pick a local drive folder that will be the temporary resting place so you can easily manipulate the image. There are far superior tools for image markup and adjustment than Snipping tool, if you are laser focused on continuing to use it for capturing screenshots - otherwise, there are better tools for multiple screenshot workflows out there as well.

I use ST myself to capture stuff because it is easy. But that is all I use it for - I use Paint[dot]NET and / or IrFanView to edit screenshots.

BTW, the behavior you're describing happens to a lot of apps in Windows - if you keep opening the same app, it slightly adjust the newest instance to be just offset from the previous one, and it keeps doing this ad nauseum until all of a sudden it becomes inconvenient. The only real fix is not to open so many windows.

BTW, since I'm using ST to capture screenshots, I've also enabled the print screen button shortcut for ST, meaning I get screenshots in very quickly, and then can open editing tools and edit away as needed. It's a really fast work flow when combined with the automatically save setting.
 

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