Windows 10 update just killed this useful feature

Windows 10 update simply killed this useful feature

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Information technology feels similar barely a day goes by without news of a Windows x update doing something we'd actually rather it didn't. Usually that involves some sort of detrimental bug or crash, only the latest example really removes a useful feature.

Microsoft has confirmed the latest Windows 10 feature pack has disabled the screen snip feature, which let users re-create and paste screen captures directly into a File Explorer folder. So at present you have to manually salvage them instead.

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The adept news is that this isn't permanent. On a blog post Microsoft explained that the feature was pulled later Windows Insiders discovered an issue with it. Microsoft hasn't explained what the issue was, but says it hopes to "re-enable this adequacy in a future update later we accost this issue."

For the time existence most users won't be afflicted past this alter, since this update is merely rolling out to early-access members. So by the fourth dimension it reaches members of the general public, Microsoft could easily have plant and solved the issue.

This isn't the simply change Microsoft has been implementing to Windows 10'southward clipboard. Back in Baronial , the visitor announced that the clipboard was being reworked to permit for a new panel that lets users insert emojis, GIFs and other content into documents and emails.

Microsoft also improved the clipboard history characteristic, adding back up for HTML content and images on top of the normal text. That update also removed the previous limit, which only recorded the last 25 things y'all copied. All that can be accessed by pressing Win + V together.

More recently Windows 10 hasn't actually had a adept fourth dimension, thanks to a slew of problems popping upwardly in what feels similar every update. Not only did a recent Windows 10 update send some PCs into an endless boot cycle, users likewise had to argue with browser links that crashed their machines, a command that could corrupt certain hard drives and more. Microsoft even killed a feature that let y'all minimize all but a single window.

Equally far as Windows ten issues become, the temporary loss of screen snip is actually quite minor. Later all, you can still save screen grabs; you just have to take a slightly more scenic route.

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