
There are several options of how you would want to print screen or capture your screen you can select before proceeding to snip. When it’s launched, other parts of your screen should turn to be a little bit gray. This is how the Snipping Tool would look like on your screen. Or you can access it by going to All Programs, Accessories, Snipping Tool. Firstly, run snipping tool via the Start button, search for “snipping tool” and click on it from the search result. If we want to capture only the logo in the screenshot, we can do it using snipping tool’s custom size snipping.

Let’s say if we have something like this on our screen. How to use Snipping Tool Windows 8/7/8.1? The fastest way this can be done is to Pin Snipping tool to the task bar so that you can launch it by only one click and will be always available on your screen, instead of running it via a desktop shortcuts or metro Start-button searching for it. Unless you hard-code a keyboard shortcut to run Snipping Tool (for advanced keyboard such as Razer), you will need to launch the program before you can actually start print screen and capturing anything on your screen. How to Quickly Find/Run Snipping Tool by Shortcut

If you are using one of these editions of Windows OS and yet Snipping Tool doesn’t exist, run Windows Update and be sure to turn it on for automatic update to get the latest updates of Snipping Tool directly from Microsoft. Snipping Tool is only available for users who own Windows 8/7/8.1/Vista Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate or Enterprise. Well, if it wasn’t installed, you are probably using the Basic version of your current Windows OS. Snipping Tool was supposed to be installed by default as you installed and launched your Windows for the first time.

Microsoft Snipping Tool is a program that allows you to crop anything on the screen and save them as an image of a format of your choice. Snipping Tool was first introduced in Windows Vista and remain as the most widely used Screenshot Capture tool in Microsoft Windows today, in the Windows 8/7/8.1.
