I am looking for a program that can copy a portion of the screen to the clipboar

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I am looking for a program that can copy a portion of the screen to the clipboard in Windows 7. Upon hitting some keyboard shortcut, it would ask me to select the region of the screen that I want to copy to the clipboard. I don't want to do anything else apart from triggering the keyboard shortcut and selecting the region of the screen I am interested in.

On Mac OS X 10.10, the built-in screenshot application Grab has this feature, which can be used through the keyboard shortcut command + control + shift + 4 .

Explanation / Answer

Windows 7 includes Snipping Tool as standard.

You should be able to find it on Start menu > Accessories. You can assign a key to the shortcut. ie if you set it to S, you just have to press Ctrl + Alt + S to run it. Then you can use the mouse to select the area you want, and it will be copied to the clipboard. Or you can draw on top of the image, or save it as a file.

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