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Keyboard shortcut for Sniping Tool
// archive Originally published on my old blog, indiangeek.net, in 2010. Links and opinions may have aged.
Windows Vista introduced the "Sniping Tool" which removed the need for me to install a third-party screen capture tool (Gadwin PrintScreen was the one that I was using). However I never really thought about the fact that I had no keyboard shortcut for this and was doing Win + "Snip..." to launch it for so long.
So today I finally stopped myself and googled for an answer which turned out to be surprisingly easy. Right -click on the Sniping Tool shortcut in the Start Menu and assign a keyboard shortcut. I assigned Ctrl + Alt + P to this and works like a charm.