Windows 10 Screen Shots in "Does exactly what you want" shock horror.

Long blog title. But it’s true. You might be surprised to learn quite a bit of my work involves cutting and and pasting. Particularly for screenshots. For a long time my weapon of choice has been the Windows Snipping Tool, which if you read the name quickly sounds a lot more exciting than it is.

Anyhoo, me and the Snipping tool have got along fine over the years and I was worried when I saw a warning message that it was being replaced. I was even more worried when I discovered that the new tool provides no easy way to capture the contents of a particular window on the screen. However, I can relax now. Because the latest Windows 10 upgrade has introduced a fantastic new way to grab, annotate and save parts of the screen. You don’t even need to start a special program. Just hit the three keys SHFT+WINDOWS+S to bring up a snipping menu, grab the thing that you want and then either paste it straight into your target using CTRL+V or open up the image editor to annotate it and save it into a file.

It works a treat. Worth knowing about.