Windows Microsoft first released Windows in 1985 with Windows 1.0, but it wasn’t until Windows 3.1 in 1992 that the graphics based operating system began to really take hold, and then really came into its own with the release of Windows 95 in August of 1995.Know someone who isn’t sure how to explain what’s on their screen? Send them a link to this article. Got any good screen capture tips or other favorite tools? We’d love to hear about it in the comments below.

Take the time to try all of the key combinations and you’ll find that you can do almost anything you want with these tools without touching your mouse. Whether it’s for helping someone else out, asking for help, or just sharing something interesting or funny, screen captures are great. Screen captures are a great way to tell a story. This only allows for taking the screen capture.It does not open the full Snip and Sketch app for editing. Opens Snip and Sketch screen capture bar. We can navigate through options using the arrow and Tab keys, and use Enter to make selections. Once we’re in a tool, like the Highlighter tool, use the keyboard shortcut combination again to access the tools options. Unfortunately, there aren’t Windows snipping tool shortcuts to choose the delay time or type of snipping tool to use. Snip and Sketch can be opened using a keyboard shortcut, which makes it very handy to use. When in the middle of getting a screen capture, Esc cancels it out, by escaping. Use ↑ and ↓ arrow keys to choose from: No delay, 1 Second, 2 Seconds, 3 Seconds, 4 Seconds, 5 Seconds. Use ↑ and ↓ arrow keys to choose from: Free-form snip, Rectangular tool, Window snip, Full-screen snip. If it says Alt + T then P that means press the Alt key and the T key at the same time and release, then press P. In the list of shortcuts below, Alt + N means to press the Alt key and the N key at the same time. We could make a keyboard shortcut to open Snipping Tools, though. There is no keyboard shortcut to open Windows Snipping Tools.

It can’t be open and behind anything, or the shortcuts do not work. For these shortcuts to work, Snipping Tools must be open and be the app that has the focus.

New version of snipping tool