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Windows Vista and later Ī new version of the tool was included starting with Windows Vista, introducing it to traditional PC users. It was a basic screen snipping app that took advantage of the Tablet PC pen to "cut out" a specific area of the computer, and then make highlights, annotations, or marks using it. For quick access, you can right-click on it in the taskbar and Pin To Taskbar.Snipping Tool's first version was available as a downloadable PowerToy for Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, which was known as Snipping Tool for Tablet PC, and was released alongside Microsoft Tablet PC on 7 November 2002. Once you’re done copying the files, you can open the SnippingTool.exe and get to experience the old Windows 10 Snipping Tool in Windows 11.

C:\YourPath\SnippingTool\SnippingTool.exe.

When you’re all done, you should have something similar to:

Go to C:\Windows.old\Windows\System32\en-US (or C:\Windows\System32\en-US from another computer).

In your new folder, make another folder called en-US (or whatever language you use).

In your new folder, copy the SnippingTool.exe file from C:\Windows.old\Windows\System32.

You’ll want to make a SnippingTool folder somewhere so you can save the files you need (I made one in my OneDrive folder for example)

You can copy the files into your Windows 11 System32 folder, but I don’t recommend that in case Microsoft decides to overwrite it in a future update.

Navigate to C:\Windows.old\Windows\System32 (or if you’re copying from another Windows 10 computer, go to C:\Windows\System32).If you don’t have the Windows.old directory, then you can still copy the files from another Windows 10 machine. If you’ve recently upgraded to Windows 11 from Windows 10 and haven’t done a Disk Cleanup, you should still have a C:\Windows.old directory which will have the files we need to restore the old Snipping Tool in Windows 11. How to Restore Old Snipping Tool in Windows 11 Some users are also getting a “This app can’t open” error when trying to open the new Snipping Tool in Windows 11.

Fortunately, there’s a way you can get the benefits of both apps. There are a number of users that feel like the new tool doesn’t offer as much functionality as the old tool, myself included. The new tool doesn’t have an app that can be launched from the Start Menu, and instead has a setting that lets you use the Print Screen button to open Screen Snipping. Windows 11 replaced the old Snipping Tool with combined Snip & Sketch and Snipping Tool. If you recently upgraded to Windows 11, you will notice that old Snipping Tool is missing or not working.