One typical example is Start Menu, which only show up when user clicks on Start button, and auto hide or disappear when user clicks on other place.

However, when come to ‘focus-sensitive’ object component on Windows desktop, there will be a hard time to capture the image of them. If you’re trying to take snapshot of normal opened window or a portion of the desktop screen estate or whole screen, there won’t be any problem to snip and capture them into image. Whichever way, the focus on the objects or windows to capture will definitely be lost. To start capturing using Snipping Tool, usually users have to run Snipping Tool (which will automatically open in snipping mode) or click on “New” button in the Snipping Tool window. However, when using Snipping Tool there is obvious shortcoming, that is unable to capture ‘temporary’ or ‘non-permanent’ or ‘disappear-on-lost-focus’ objects on the desktop. Snipping Tool is available for free, and can be a total replacement and free alternative for the popular SnagIt screen capture software. Snipping Tool is a useful screen capturing comes included in Windows operating system Windows XP Tablet edition and has been regular feature in Windows Vista, Window 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10.

Snagit hotkey print screen