I wish they would try harder. Not yet on this GIF release, but the new Win11 era snipping tool is horribly slow compared to the legacy one. I used to be able to hit the keyboard shortcut and have it appear instantly. There is now a several second pause before the tool is ready to use. Have missed several screen grabs I wanted to capture of a live presentation.
I haven't used Windows since 7. But you could probably extract that version of the tool from an unpacked install ISO and see if you'd be able to use it instead, though no doubt a little less conveniently. Does AutoHotkey still work for rebinding most Win key combos?
Heh. I have definitely thought about that (same with legacy paint!). Unfortunately, it is a corporate PC, and I am not sure how that would go to be loading “untrusted” files. My suspicion is that the current release is labeled as a protected system file, so I could not overwrite it. Which means the hard coded shortcut combination would continue to launch the slow, bloated one. So, yeah definitely less convenient.
Slightly. If it's Win+C for a screenshot and Win+Shift+C is unbound, then you should be able to use AHK to bind it to launch the old binary, so at least you only have to modify muscle memory already extant.
That assumes DWM doesn't own the whole Win key now and that you can run signed but not specifically approved binaries. But like I said, it's been a long time since I was acquainted with Windows and I don't think I've lacked for at least local admin on a work machine since some time in the very early 2000s, so my advice is likely not worth much.
