Vista Annoyances – Snipping Tool is Not Working Right Now
There is a little tool built into Vista which you may not know about called The Snipping Tool (SnippingTool.exe). If it is not on your system you may have to enable Tablet PC support.
The Snipping Tool is kind of like a GUI for people who do know about Print-Screen and Alt-Print-Screen. It does have the interesting ability to do a ‘Free-form snip’ which allows images like the one on the right (I’m not quite sure what practical use this has!).
Unfortunately when I went to show the Snipping Tool to someone today it came back at me with a vague error as seen below.
A quick Google search revealed many people are struggling with this problem. Some suggestions included running Microsoft Office Diagnostics and Microsoft Resource Checker (SFC) against the binary. Neither of these solved the problem and ultimately I had to give in and reboot Vista again. If anyone knows how to solve this without rebooting let me know. 
Tags: microsoft, vista, windows
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