Snipping Tool Locking Up Windows 10
Arnaud Richardson
I've set my print screen button to start snip & sketch instead of just taking a screenshot of everything. It worked like a charm for quite a while but then all of a sudden whenever I opened it and selected what I want to take a screenshot of it freezes my whole desktop except my mouse for about 10 seconds. It doesn't actually freeze the pc, I can still hear a song I'm playing, or sounds from programs, but I can't do anything except move my mouse. I don't have any third party antivirus installed except MalwareBytes but I don't have it running and it still happens.
@HotCakeXI upgraded to 1909 and have the latest update, but the problem still persists. It works fine with a regular print scree (it doesn't freeze), and I also tried turning off windows defender to see if it was checking the screenshots for a virus and it didn't change anything.
@Lionile This just happened to me as well this morning. I was taking screen caps fine all day yesterday, then I boot up this morning and try to take a screen cap and.....the selection won't go away. It just stays up on screen forever and makes the display non interactive. I can't back out of the screen cap, I can't alt+tab to go to another program, the windows button doesn't work. I try to call up the task manager with ctrl+alt+delete, and the blue screen pops up with the options to Lock, restart, log out or task Manager, but when I click on task manager it just brings me to the screen cap. The only way for me to get out of it is to alt+f4, and when I do, the screen cap goes away and shows me my other open programs and the task manager that were stuck beneath it.
I am a moderator and help desk member of a Discord channel for a Minecraft Rendering Tool called Chunky, so being able to take screenshots to guide and direct people to solutions to their problems is ESSENTIAL. As it is now, I had to take a photo with my phone to show what I mean, since I can't take a screenshot to show my screenshot problem. *sigh* I used the freeform selection for this one. The selection stays up and won't save, keeping my laptop locked in screenshot mode indefinitely until I alt+f4 out.
@Lionile I'm struggling with something similar - once i snip an image and go to mark it up (sketch) the sketching process hangs like crazy - making it very hard to edit or erase or switch tools while marking something up... it hangs over an over again - it eventually will "catch up" but it is painful...
It is available under "Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System". In my case, this was an AD environment and I had access to fix this at the network level, but on an individual computer with admin rights running win 10 pro or a higher version, you should theoretically be able to set his using gpedit.msc
Trying to use Window snipping tool while in excusive full screen with HDR on while in a match on the social screen causes the screen to go black without the snipping tool working, alt tabbing to try to fix it results in the screen being stuck on whatever last menu you were on. had to alt f4 to resolve issue
While you are on the lock screen, simply press Print Screen (PtrScr), which will copy the whole lock screen into the clipboard. Even though Windows 10 has been improved than the previous operational system, some old features in Windows system are still kept, such as capturing a screenshot.
However, capturing the login screen of Windows 10 would be not so easy with just one key. But built-in Snipping tool in Windows 10 will still help you to take a screenshot of login screen, as long as you can run it from login screen.
Here in order to use the Snipping tool to capture login screen, we will make full use of ease of access button appearing on the login screen and put the snippingtool.exe instead of utilman.exe through registry editor.
Step 5: While you go to login screen, click the ease of access button at the right-bottom corner. Snipping tool will launch, with which you can choose the capture mode and take a screenshot of login screen.
A snipping tool allows users to capture a portion of their screen. This can be very useful if you need to share information, create instructional images, report bugs or issues, or save visual content for reference.
This quick shortcut locks your computer much faster than going through the menu to do so, and very important in shared spaces. Pressing this key combo will instantly lock your computer and show the login screen.
Thanks for that tip. I found another way to avoid losing data. I used Ctrl-Esc to get to the Windows menu, thinking I would just have to sign out. When I chose sign out, it listed all the apps I was running and asked if I was sure, and I responded by clicking Cancel. That cancelled my signout and also returned me to normal operation.
"Always on top". You are a life saver. I didnt want to reboot because I am connected to a ton of remote apps for work. Was trying to issue taskkill into the cli which worked, but was typing blind.... Lol
On my Win 7 x64, The 'Snipping tool' explorer crashes started a few weeks ago. I searched Microsoft Support iand found a few items to check in the registry, but all was ok.
I then thought I would check my startup programs to see if one was the problem. It was and I fixed it by disabling a program in my startup options..( this could of been any program but in this case it was my 'Logitech Setpoint' program that was causing the problem.
Below are the steps I used to resolve this issue:
1. I clicked my 'Start Button' on my task bar (Icon that looks like the Windows Logo), and in the search bar I typed in 'system' and selected the 'system configuration' option when it showed up
2. After it opened I selected the "Start" tab and looked for non essential programs and unchecked the Logitech 'Setpoint' program... (I got lucky as this was my first program I selected to remove from startup.)
3. rebooted and my snipping tool works fine now.
Hopes this helps... plus any program that you disable from startup that isn't the problem can easily be restored back to its original configuration by re-checking its box.
The only ISSUE I see here is how to end the Snipping Tools, but What about how to fix the main ISSUE which is: The new Windows 10 screen snip not working freeze. when I open it and snipped any area it freeze there it won't show what was snipped it just stays freeze on the area snipped. I can end the task but I need the tool working.
Thank you a million time !! I was pretty much done with a long class project when this happened. I read many other methods posted, but they just weren't working for. I tried yours and boom!! I'm straight :)
These are all work-a-rounds ... as someone "unknown" stated how do you fix the frigging problem in the first place?
Only Microsoft can push you into a new POS Operating System that doesn't work, when the previous was adequate once patched ... er ... were's the patch for this conundrum?
Thanks for this tip, but it's not quite a solution. Some bug apears in this software. I have installed which is simmlar like snipping tool, not complicated and easy to use.
I have enough freezing my comp with snipping tool.
As kindly explained by one of our users, you can disable the built-in snipping tool by going to Windows Settings -> Ease of Access -> Keyboard -> Scroll down to "Print Screen Shortcut" and turn off the "Use the Prtscn button to open screen snipping":
As some of our users have reported, this does not always solve the issue. because Windows being Windows, it seems you sometimes have to take an extra step to fix this (as reported by archadallas). This has been explained in an article in makeuseof.com. If this solved your issue, please up-vote this.
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