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I don't like the snipping tool. I hit print screen then paste it into mspaint and save it

I'm always amazed at the wide spread use of mspaint. Since Win 98 I have used better alternatives e.g. irfanview but to each their own.

The good thing about mspaint is I can close my eyes, press the windows key, type mspaint return and I can be reasonably sure it will open without installing anything.

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Win-R mspaint, notepad, and cmd are burned into my brain for getting stuff done. Everything else gets in the way.

Win+R is kind of sacred for me. It remembers the last command so I prefer to keep simple things out of it.

It is easy to press windows and type mstsc and then press enter. This way I don't have to press up and down to get to that long command should I need it in the run command.

You can turn it off completely, or just press Ctrl+PrtScr to trigger the old behavior.

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