Snipping Tool stopped working

Up until a day or so ago, Shft-Win-S brought up the Snipping Tool and activated it, so I could grab a section of the screen and have a snapshot of it saved to the clipboard.

Now, when I click Shft-Win-S, I got a busy cursor for a second or so, and that's it. No indication of it being ready for me to select an area, nothing.

If I manually open the app, and click the New button, the app window disappears, I get a busy cursor for a second, and then nothing. I can see the app on the taskbar (presumably minimised), and if I click it, I just get the window back up.

I tried repairing and resetting the app, but didn't help.

Anyone any ideas? Thanks

Hate to say this, but I had the same problem a year or so ago, and I fixed it with an in-place upgrade install. See tutorials. It's easy, actually.

You could try some of these potential fixes for this>

Hi,

From powershell, please enter this command:

Get-AppxPackage MicrosoftWindows.Client.Core -AllUsers | Reset-AppxPackage <enter>

Wisewiz said:

Hate to say this, but I had the same problem a year or so ago, and I fixed it with an in-place upgrade install. See tutorials. It's easy, actually.

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Yeah, but quite destructive. I'll see if I can find a less destructive way first, and will resort to that only if I get stuck.

Marcus Vinicus said:

You could try some of these potential fixes for this>

How to Fix It When the Snipping Tool Isn't Working in Windows 11

The Snipping Tool is a useful and reliable way to take screenshots on Windows 11. A problem with the Snipping Tool can be an unexpected annoyance. Here's how to fix it when the Snipping Tool isn't working in Windows 11.

www.lifewire.com

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Thanks, but none of them helped.

OAT said:

Hi,

From powershell, please enter this command:

Get-AppxPackage MicrosoftWindows.Client.Core -AllUsers | Reset-AppxPackage <enter>

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When I entered that, I got the following...

Reset-AppxPackage : Package was not found.
Windows cannot remove MicrosoftWindows.Client.Core_1000.22633.1000.0_x64__cw5n1h2txyewy because the current user does
not have that package installed. Use Get-AppxPackage to see the list of packages installed.
At line:1 char:58

• ... ppxPackage MicrosoftWindows.Client.Core -AllUsers | Reset-AppxPackage
• ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Reset-AppxPackage], COMException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException,Microsoft.Windows.Appx.PackageManager.Comman
ds.ResetAppxPackageCommand

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I would paste in the output of Get-AppxPackage but there was wads of it. Please let me know if it wold be useful.

Thanks to all of you, any other ideas?

Hi MrYossu,
I am sorry and a little surprised that didn't work.
Since you have tried resetting the app, I would now attempt to uninstall it and reinstall it from the store after you have rebooted.

OAT said:

Hi MrYossu,
I am sorry and a little surprised that didn't work.
Since you have tried resetting the app, I would now attempt to uninstall it and reinstall it from the store after you have rebooted.

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OK, thanks for the suggestion. I'll have to wait to reboot, too busy now. Will let you know how I get on.

Thanks again