Snipping Tool - Where is it?

I wanted to use Snipping Tool on one of my Windows 10 machines today. It
was not on the StartWindows Accessories list, and nowhere to be found.
Cortana just lead me to the internet...not a desktop app.

This reminded me that on March 7, I asked a similar question about
Windows Media Player. That is, where was WMP on this same machine? It
was also missing in the StartWindows Accessories list.

All of my machines have OEM installs of Windows 10 Home, 64-bit, but only
one machine came with version 1709 as the original install, and this is
the one missing WMP and Snipping Tool (and other apps. mentioned below)
in the Windows Accessories list. It's the "Where are they now?" effect.

The others machines had earlier versions than 1709, which have since been
updated to 1709, but still have a fully populated list of Windows
Accessories.

I can understand Microsoft wanting to abandon WMP, and making it
difficult for users to find. And this ploy seems to have started with
original installs of version 1709. What have you observed?

My machines that came with versions prior to 1709 installed, have this
StartWindows Accessories list:
3D Builder
Character Map
Internet Explorer
Math Input Panel
Notepad
Paint
Paint 3D
Quick Assist
Remote Desktop Connection
Snipping Tool
Steps Recorder
Windows Fax and Scan
WordPad, and
XPS Viewer

My machine that came with version 1709 installed, has this StartWindows
Accessories list:
3D Builder
Internet Explorer
Notepad
Print 3D

ALL machines now have version 1709, build 16299.309, and the Windows
Accessories lists are still the same for all machines, as shown above.

Just like I had to do with WMP to have it available for use, I had to do
the same for Snipping Tool, which I found at C:\Windows\System32. From
there you can Pin to taskbar, but just like WMP, you can select and click
Pin to Start, but it doesn't show up on Start.

Do those of you who have updated to version 1709 from earlier versions
still have the full list of apps on StartWindows Accessories?

Do those of you whose machines first version was 1709, have this
shortened list of apps on StartWindows Accessories?

Just curious.

In article 15.223, Boris
wrote:

I wanted to use Snipping Tool on one of my Windows 10 machines today. It
was not on the StartWindows Accessories list, and nowhere to be found.
Cortana just lead me to the internet...not a desktop app.

This is a cut and paste from a previous thread that I put in my notes.
Hope it helps...

Are you sure you haven't fitted a shortcut or something ?

Thanks for checking up on this Paul, where my mistake was that I didn't
realize the old "Run" command was still in Windows, so what I was errantly
calling a "Run" command was, in reality, just the "program search" of Win7
and the "Cortana search" of Windows 10.

I have confirmed that the "snip" command does /NOT/ work with the real
"Run" box on Windows 10, which is what you've found out independently.

Cortana is a Search box with Run capability.

Yeah. I was thinking that what you call Cortana is what I was calling "Run"
but now I realize they're different (I always knew they were different but
I didn't realize the "real" Run was still there in Windows 7 and Windows
10.

My mistake.
Thanks for catching that faux pas.

Right-clicking the Start Orb reveals the actual traditional Run box,
and that run box should accept typing the full name of an executable.

There's another sneaky way, which I just tried, and it works just fine!
But, there's what seems to be a Windows bug that I had to work around,
where finding Windows bugs seems to be my unenviable gift.

A. Creating this new key /should/ have worked but it did not work
(I suspect this is due to a Windows bug because I've been doing this App
Paths command-creation technique for decades!)
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\snip.exe
Default = %windir%\system32\SnippingTool.exe

B. Creating this /should/ have worked, but it also did not work (same bug!)
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\snip.exe
Default = %SystemRoot%\system32\SnippingTool.exe

C. This worked but it should have done the same as the above anyway!
a. Right click on the SnippingTool.exe key
b. Export to "SnippingTool.reg"
c. Change only "SnippingTool.exe" to "snip.exe" & save as "snip.reg"
d. Doubleclick on "snip.reg" and it will create the new key "snip.exe".

Why A & B above don't work, but C does, must be a bug.

Here is the content of the SnippingTool.reg & snip.reg for tribal archives.

:=== cut below for SnippingTool.reg ===:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\App
Paths\SnippingTool.exe]
?@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,0 0,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\
?
00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00 ,32,00,5c,00,53,00,6e,00,\
?
69,00,70,00,70,00,69,00,6e,00,67,00,54,00,6f,00,6f ,00,6c,00,2e,00,65,00,78,\
? 00,65,00,00,00
?
?
:=== cut above for SnippingTool.reg ===:
:=== cut below for snip.reg ===:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\App
Paths\snip.exe]
?@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,0 0,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\
?
00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00 ,32,00,5c,00,53,00,6e,00,\
?
69,00,70,00,70,00,69,00,6e,00,67,00,54,00,6f,00,6f ,00,6c,00,2e,00,65,00,78,\
? 00,65,00,00,00
?
?
:=== cut above for snip.reg ===:

On Sat, 17 Mar 2018 00:27:53 -0000 (UTC), Boris
wrote:


I wanted to use Snipping Tool on one of my Windows 10 machines today. It
was not on the StartWindows Accessories list, and nowhere to be found.

I use the Search engine "Everything".

By the time I have typed snip I have already being told that
"SnippingTool.exe" is located in "C:\Windows\System32"

HTH,

Monty wrote in
:

On Sat, 17 Mar 2018 00:27:53 -0000 (UTC), Boris
wrote:


I wanted to use Snipping Tool on one of my Windows 10 machines today.
It was not on the StartWindows Accessories list, and nowhere to be
found.

I use the Search engine "Everything".

By the time I have typed snip I have already being told that
"SnippingTool.exe" is located in "C:\Windows\System32"

HTH,


I do have Everything, but the way I find these 'non-listed' apps is to use
a Win10 machine that does list the apps, launch the app from that machine,
and then go to Task Manager, and do a right-click on the app, and an Open
file location.

But, thanks for the tip, that would indeed be faster and could be used on
the offending machine.

On Sat, 17 Mar 2018 01:23:17 +0000, Good Guy
wrote:

On 17/03/2018 00:27, Boris wrote:
I wanted to use Snipping Tool on one of my Windows 10 machines today. It
was not on the StartWindows Accessories list, and nowhere to be found.
Cortana just lead me to the internet...not a desktop app.


It is available to people with low intelligence. Cortana must have
known you for asking very stupid questions so decided that you should
really be using something else; Windows 10 is not for you because you
are too stupid to use it.

I see the penis enlarger is still working!

On Sat, 17 Mar 2018 00:27:53 -0000 (UTC), Boris wrote:

Do those of you who have updated to version 1709 from earlier versions
still have the full list of apps on StartWindows Accessories?


I upgraded to version 1709 from an earlier version.

I still have Snipping Tool in Start Windows Accessories.

I also have all the apps you list and a few more in
Start Windows Accessories, except for Paint 3D which
is installed but is higher up in the Start menu.


--
Kind regards
Ralph