BobH wrote: ↑24 Sep 2024, 22:11
....should be able to
_ launch Snipping Tool,
_ choose New to create a new snip,
_ press the escape key then -
after right clicking in Disk Mgmt to - get the drop down menu displayed
_ press CTL and PrtScr simultaneously and cause Snipping Tool to display the unfocused screen which gives the option to encompass the area to be captured, the drop down menu, and proceed as with a regular screenshot snip. .......
…..If someone can explain what I'm doing wrong with Snipping Tool when trying to capture the drop down…..
Hi Bob,
Just a quick note/ reminder on that
Snipping tool for pop up / dropdown issue: we have discussed this one a few times in recent years ( for example,
https://www.eileenslounge.com/viewtopic ... 55#p308555 https://eileenslounge.com/viewtopic.php ... 68#p292968 )
That particular procedure/ key combination and feature you describe, was in Windows 10 and not, or not quite, or not quite as much
** or sort of there if you are lucky in a round about sort of way, in windows 11.
( ….
Snipping Tool was to be deprecated and replaced with Snip & Sketch in the Windows 10 period. But it was not discontinued …. possibly as a lot of people liked it in preference to Snip and Sketch, that is what I heard/ picked up at the time. It seemed to get a bit messy around the windows 11 time, ….
features from Snip & Sketch were merged into Snipping Tool, and Snip & Sketch is no longer part of Windows 11 , .. maybe … perhaps.
It’s a bit confusing, as we have that name now Snipping Tool in Windows 11, but it works a bit differently to the Snipping Tool from the Windows 10 period. (Exactly what they did and why and what we have got will be proprietary info I guess.. left to us to guess, or smarter people may have better inside information)
The end result is that, I think you can almost do what you want, in a roundabout sort of way using the thing in windows 11 going by the name of Snipping Tool .
So I do try this now, and as example I am trying to do something similar to what you originally wanted, trying in Disk Mgmt in Windows 11, (my system and set up is a bit different so I can’t check exactly the same, but I think its close to that you tried to do, that is to say get a screenshot from a right click drop down in Disk Mgmt in Windows 11
Here we go…..
Method 1
_ launch Snipping Tool,
_ choose New to create a new snip,
_ press the escape key, ( then get the drop down or pop up you want to take a screenshot of )
_ press the
three keys,
Microsoft Symbol and Shift and S simultaneously ………
_ You now have the familiar darkened screen or greyed screen , with the default snip type being that familiar one where you hold the left mouse button, drag around a bit ,then let go and you end up with a rectangular snip.
But, Now here’s the catch: Snipping Tool does not open in windows 11 at this point in the way it does in Windows 10 at this point after you made your snip, and
for me nothing is visible
**. (I am taking a wild guess that what is going on here is some incorporated feature from the discontinued Snip and sketch.)
However, all is not lost, as it where, at least the saved screenshot is somewhere, for example, - it seems to be in the clipboard. I am not sure the best way to get at that screenshot pic. … I tried, just for example, pasting into Word, and got it:
(For this next screenshot I did for you I used Snipping Tool in Windows 11 in the simpler way,
_ Launch, _ make the snip of part of my Word doc. After that more simple use of Snipping Tool, Snipping Tool comes up with screenshot in it, and the options , including those to save the pic, which is also not so obvious, or at least different to Windows 10
– we discussed that before as well: there is a tiny save button stuck up there on the right )
This is what I got
https://i.postimg.cc/FRpm7Wqq/Paste-in- ... hift-S.jpg
Paste in Word after MS Symbol + Shift + S.jpg
So Method 1 seems to work to get what you want, and in fact, a simpler method 2 seems to do the same…
Method 2
This is sort of like method 1 without the first 3 steps.
( first of all get the drop down or pop up you want to take a screenshot of )
_ press the
three keys,
Microsoft Symbol and Shift and S simultaneously ………
_ You now have the familiar darkened screen or greyed screen , with the default snip type being the one where you hold the left mouse button, drag around a bit ,then let go and you end up with a rectangular snip.
But, Now here’s the catch: Snipping Tool does not open, ….. etc. etc. as in
Method 1
Alan
_.___________
Notes
** _ 1 I have heard it said many times that after the snip is taken in windows 11, a notification is given that gives you some options of what to do with the image you now have in the clipboard. But this has never worked for me on my only windows 11 machine. ( I have checked in Settings – Notifications – Snipping Tool , and everything is turned on. ( I have
windows version 21H2 (Build22000.675) , and on this particular machine I have rarely messed around with, or changed, any default settings. So it's pretty well "
out of the box", that is to, say, as Microsoft want it to be.) )
I expect that does works for most other people, since it is often suggested, so chances are that will work for you also, Bob
** _2 In Windows 10 the method to get a screenshot of a pop up or drop down mostly works, but occasionally doesn’t
for me. Same experience had in windows 11 for me, except it works on average slightly less often. But my experience is not extensive. It might go the other way with others depending on what they typically try to get a screenshot of
( _3 I think like me, people find that that key combination ,
Microsoft Symbol and Shift and S , a bit awkward, and Joe and others have often suggested that you can use key
PrtScr to activate by going to Settings | Accessibility | Keyboard, or set up a shortcut of your own. ( I probably won’t try that myself just yet as something seems to be wonky in my settings regarding Snipping Tool on my only windows 11 machine. At the moment I can usually get a screenshot of a dropdown or pop up, (even if not as easily in Windows 10), so I don’t want to risk braking that ) )
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