What is Snipping Tool?
By Matt Estes
"Can you take a screenshot?" asks your resident technology guru when you have an end-of-the-world computer problem.
"Erm... sure," you reply, inwardly befuddled.
So what do you do? How do you take a picture of your computer screen? Do you run go dig out a digital camera from the storage closet? Do you try to take a clear picture using your cell phone? No. You use snipping tool.
Snipping Tool is a built in program on the Windows operating system. It comes installed with Windows Vista and later, making it one of the only innovations Vista did correctly as an operating system.
The steps to using it are simple.
Open snipping tool.
Select "New Snip."
Drag the cursor over what you want to save as a picture.
Save the picture or copy it to your clipbo...