Snipping tool occasionally super slow to show what I've clipped

I love Snipping Tool and use it all day long as part of my work . I never had a bit of trouble with it in Windows 7. But now that I'm on 11, it's sometimes showing up incredibly slowly. it's not that the software opened slowly . That's just fine. And most of the time there's no delay in allowing me to make the snip. It's after I define the area I want that it can take up to 10 minutes four the options for cutting pasting and saving to show up .

most of the most of The other day it reached a point where I was going to reboot the computer just to fix this and as I closed all of my notes in outlook and all of my windows in Chrome , the snip suddenly came up 10 minutes later. And for the rest of the day, it worked fine but then did it again the next day for about 3 minutes. most of the time, the clip shows up in like one second, so it's not my system overall being slow. And even when it's happening, everything else on my computer works just fine. It's only S.T. that seems to get stuck like that.

Of course, I've tried closing it...even killing the process and re-opening it. Nothing but rebooting helps until it's worked its way through whatever its deal is.

Suggestions? Please know I'm not super techy, so if you explain things, please include real steps...not assumptions that I know how to find things.
Thank you!

Try another capture program, such as ShareX or Greenshot, see how they stack up against Snipping Tool.

You could delete it & reinstall it from the MS Store ! This i had to do on a clients & worked fine ever since !

Before I consider Edwin's idea of abandoning this tool that's easy and I love other than this....Flashh4, was it the same issue I had? Or something different. Snipping tool came with win11 so I really have no idea how I'd reinstall it, but open to it if it'll fix this specific issue.

I've tried them all - Lightshot is the best I've found.

Lightshot

miloshapiro said:

Before I consider Edwin's idea of abandoning this tool that's easy and I love other than this....Flashh4, was it the same issue I had? Or something different. Snipping tool came with win11 so I really have no idea how I'd reinstall it, but open to it if it'll fix this specific issue.

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Windows Settings --> Apps --> Installed Apps --> Snipping Tool --> Uninstall.

Then use this link to get the Snipping Tool installed again from the Microsoft Store (use the Get in Store app button to automatically open the store on your computer to that app directly).


Alternately, just open the store and search for it.

I have this exact same issue. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling snipping tool but the issue persists. For now I have switched to Lightshot which works well but I am still very annoyed that snipping tool is non-functional even after reinstall

I had this problem awhile ago.

Discord and Snapping Tool on Windows 11, sometimes NOT working. no way to launch.

Some apps, Discord, Snapping Tool on Windows 11, NOT launch

Discord and Snapping Tool on Windows 11, sometimes NOT working. no way to launch. Anyone has a solution? Google can return many solutions/tips (basically to kill its process in Task Manager). I have tried. none of them works on my Windows 11 (as Discord NOT showing up in Task Manager at all)...

www.elevenforum.com

it's fixed by doing a repair install according to glasskuter's advice.

trixie_pie said:

I have this exact same issue. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling snipping tool but the issue persists. For now I have switched to Lightshot which works well but I am still very annoyed that snipping tool is non-functional even after reinstall

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I dont use windows tool cause its been broke for me for a long time. So Ive been through a ton of snippet apps paid and otherwise but in the end my personal fav is now Screenpresso. Its a paid app but for me I love it. Ive used the others listed here and nah but to each his own you may love one of the other options listed here. Trial and error.

boy have i got the solution for you. I ran into the same issue. It drove me crazy, i did everything, reinstalled snipping tool, looked for alternatives, and nothing worked.
The solution is actually pretty simple: go to snipping tool settings, it's only got about 4 of them, and UNCHECK the update clipboard one.
My take is, when you undo annotations it conflicts with the way snipping tool updates your clipboard.
Also, if you have the other problem that's bugging me, the fact that your snips don't show up in the bottom right corner of the screen anymore for easy access and annotation, just turn off focus assist mode, from windows setting, or set it to priority mode, and put snipping tool in the priority list.
You're welcome!

I had forgotten about this problem til getting a notification from Evilnescu today because the problem just magically went away on its own somewhere along the way. I like that it automatically puts a copy in clipboard because I almost always want that. But if the slowness ever comes back, you can bet I'll try that easy fix. Thanks E!

Have had the same issue, after install win 11, snipping tool worked for about 2weeks. Then suddenly went slow, takes about 2 seconds to show the image. Removed / reinstalled / dism did not fix it. Went on using shareX very happy about the app. Just re-tested snipping tool, after not using it a year, hoped it would work now. But now when i press New.. nothing happens anymore, it just exits.