Today when I used the Snipping Tool in Windows 10 it stopped working. I could select an area over and over again, but it never closed after that as it should. The screen was dimmed and I could not get to any other program because Snipping Tool was on top of everything, even Task Manager! I almost gave up doing a hard reset, when I found a way to get rid of it:
Alt+Tab still showed. It has a small X that appears if you hover an application with the mouse. Using this you can close Snipping Tool!
Phew…
Than you!! This just happened to me on my company’s remote server I was working in.
They seem to have fixed the “press the X to kill it” feature so that didn’t work for me. I did find that Alt F4 killed it, lets hope they don’t block that one next.
Alt F4 worked for me
Thanks for sharing this solution
Hi.. Apparently they did! I am stucjed!
Same for me, no go. Stupid tool!
Alt+f4 worked … ty
OMG. THAT WAS HORRIBLY FRUSTRATING. Yeah, none of those work for me sadly. That said, I was actually able to force it closed without fully shutting off my pc (a surface book) by holding the power button, sliding to shut down & then when it asks, are you sure you want to shut down? You have all these things open, I clicked cancel & when it went back to my desktop snipping tool was closed! Woo! So glad I didn’t have to lose all my progress on the multiple things I had open
Your way saved me, others didn’t work.
Thanks Michelle,
Same! I believe the other solutions didn’t work because I had captured something previously, and there was a popup asking if I wanted to save the changes (probably preventing it from closing).
Nothing worked for me until I did this.
Press the windows key or search icon in the bottom left then type the following
(taskkill /f /im “snippingtool.exe” /t), but exclude the brackets.
Hope this helps someone else as I almost forced shutdown.
This is the only thing that worked for me. Great little command here
Life saver!
My lord it worked! Thank you so much. I have been working on exams the past few weeks. Im in the last stretch and it froze on me. I got soo stressed but u saved me! Thanks
Your exact code didn’t work for me, but this variant worked:
(taskkill /f /im snippingtool.exe) excluding the brackets.
Thanks! :)
You saved my life. I love you.
Thank you!
This just saved me from a huge loss of work. Seriously. Thank you!
That worked, THANKS!
Alt-Fn-F4 also works – in case you can’t see the little x
–Lonny
Alt f4 worked when ALT tab didn’t. A life saver. Didn’t lose work.