I love that sometimes Win10's snipping tool (as opposed to the old ver from Win7) just

Breaks

And to keep it working you have to repeatedly kill the snipping process

@DarkOverord we've been using sharex since before the snipping tool existed, maybe give that a try?
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@Felthry Maybe, I'm not exactly looking for an alternative when Win7's snipping tool is still in there and probably half of the time I often just hit a full Print Screen and grab the bit I want via my art application X3

Just bemoaning Win10's just, sometimes giving up the ghost and requiring a restart of the machine to fix

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@DarkOverord oh! didn't know yyou had *two* now, that's weird

like we said, we've been using something else snice before the snipping tool existed, so we've never used it
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@Felthry yeah they added "Snip & Sketch", meant to be a better ver than Snipping Tool, and does actually have a windows keybind (Win + Shift + S) which makes it really useful

And also makes it glaringly obvious when it just goes "nah" 'cus it failed to end it's own screen snipping process.

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