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Comment by landr0id | Hacker News Reader

Snipping tool doesn't exist on hospital PCs?

Centralised Group Policy Objects (GPOs) on the Windows Domain, can block any EXE that's on the machine, or a customised deployment image of Windows 10 can even be configured to not installed any of the built in applications. So yes, no snipping tool on a deployed installation of Windows 10 is a real scenario.

Also, GPOs can (and do) disable the Windows Store. So moving MSPaint to the Windows Store does not make as available as having it pre-installed.

If no Snipping Tool because of GPO is a real scenario, no Paint because of GPO is a real scenario too

If a machine is blocking built-in applications, why would it have MSPaint available? Or is it an application that cannot be blocked, which would be a security vulnerability?

I spent 10 years doing corporate desktop deployments of Windows. You'd be surprised at the crazy requests from the business regarding what they did and didn't want pre-installed.

Context menus close when you use the snipping tool.

Hence the Delay option.

Thanks. I've always struggled with this and only now realized that Delay-option in Snipping tool.

Had no idea this existed.

Still, there are times when you have a weird error you need to screenshot, and you know that if you move the mouse or hit anything other than the print screen button, it will go away.

Paint made this scenario very easy to deal with.

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