Windows 10 How do I disable Snipping Tool / Snip and Sketch and Windows Shift S and install a better 3rd party application to do the job?

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Jon Morby

Snip and Sketch / Snipping Tool is fundamentally broken. The fact that it doesn't save a snapshot automatically and that there is no way to configure this basic behaviour means the app is completely useless.


I need to install a 3rd party app to do this, something like ShareX .. however I can't find a way to make Win+Shift-S call ShareX .. or OneNote's snipping tool or anything useful.


How do I remove the useless MS tool and replace with a working 3rd party app, and utilise the key binding which this uninstall action should now free up?


Having seen that this "bug" has been reported 3 years ago and Microsoft have failed to address it in subsequent releases of Snip and Sketch/etc I have little faith that it will be addressed before the min 10 year feature consideration cycle which Redmond seem dead set on :(

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