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The Windows Snipping Tool is best known for its screenshot-taking capabilities—after all, when you launch it from the Start menu, that's what it invites you to do. But Microsoft has packed a number of ...

Most people have never heard of the Windows Snipping Tool. Those who have usually think it only takes screenshots. But this ...

Many Windows users only use the Snipping Tool for basic screenshots, unaware of its full set of features. With it, you can take delayed screenshots, create freeform snips, record videos, extract text ...

If you’re looking for the easiest way to take screenshots or record your screen on a Windows PC, the Snipping Tool has you covered. This built-in utility has been part of Windows since Windows 7, and ...

Windows 11 Snipping Tool is gaining its much-awaited screen recording feature, allowing PC users to capture their screen in the video. The new screen record option is now available for testing. It is ...

Well now this will be useful! Microsoft is adding a text recognition function (OCR) to the Windows 11 Snipping Tool. The new feature will let you to copy text from screenshots and paste it into word ...

Microsoft is finally adding a built-in screen recorder to Windows 11 through the Snipping Tool, enabling users to capture videos of their desktop without the need for a third-party app. The update is ...

The screen-capture utility built into Vista--and available for XP--has a couple of useful tricks up its sleeve. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' ...

As part of the Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17661, Microsoft has finally gotten around to improving how screenshots are captured. Currently, there is the option to use the Snipping Tool app to ...

A severe privacy flaw named 'apocalypse' has recently been discovered to affect both the Google Pixel Markup and Windows 11 Snipping tools. This bug causes the original image data to be retained in an ...