How to create Screen Snip shortcut in Windows 10

Starting with Windows 10 build 17661, the new Screen Snip feature has been added to Windows 10 to be able to quickly capture and share screenshots.

You can select an arbitrary rectangular area, or full screen and this section will be taken straight to your clipboard. If that's all you need, you can get screenshots from here. What if I want to do more operations? Immediately after taking a screenshot, you will receive a notification that your snapshot will be taken to the Sketch Screen application, where you can annotate and share photos.

This tutorial will show you how to create or download a Screen Snip shortcut in Windows 10.

Option 1: How to download Screen Snip shortcut

1. Click the .zip file below to download it:

Screen_snip-shortcut.zip

2. Save this .zip file to your desktop.

3. Extract the .zip file.

4. Open the .zip file and extract (drag and drop) the shortcut to your desktop.

5. You can select options such as Pin to Taskbar , Pin to Start , add All apps , add to Quick Launch , assign keyboard shortcuts or scroll Move this shortcut to where you want to be easy to use.

6. When done, you can delete the downloaded .zip file if you want.

Option 2: How to manually create Screen Snip shortcut

1. Right-click or click and hold on an empty area at your screen and click New and Shortcut .

2. Copy and paste the location below into the Type the location of the item section and click Next (see screenshot below):

% windir% explorer.exe ms-screenclip:

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3. Enter Screen snip name and click the Finish button (see screenshot below).

You can also name this shortcut as you like.

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4. Right-click or click and hold the new Hyper-V Manager shortcut and click Properties .

5. Click the Shortcut tab, then click the Change Icon button (see screenshot below).

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6. In the line below " Look for icons in this file ", copy and paste the location below and press Enter (see screenshot below):

% windir% system32SnippingTool.exe

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7. Select the icon marked with the blue above and click OK (see screenshot above).

Instead, you can also use any icon you want.

8. Click OK (see screenshot below).

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9. You can choose options such as Pin to Taskbar , Pin to Start , add All apps , add to Quick Launch , assign keyboard shortcuts or scroll Move this shortcut to where you want to be easy to use.

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