Snip and Sketch shortcuts.  

Is it possible to create a taskbar shortcut to open 'Snip and Sketch' directly and without it opening the whole App?

These images should clarify what I mean. Snip and Sketch can be added to the taskbar but it always opens as shown. By pure chance I found a button in the action centre that also opens Snip and Sketch. This one opens just the working App ready to go and use without the other screen info present.

You could add it to the right click menu...

Add or Remove Screen Snip Context Menu in Windows 10 | Windows 10 Tutorials

Shortcut:

explorer.exe ms-screenclip:



EDIT:

More appropriate icon: %SystemRoot%\System32\shell32.dll,259

Many thanks Edwin, that's just what I wanted Found the icon as well, excellent.

Edwin said:

Shortcut:
More appropriate icon: %SystemRoot%\System32\shell32.dll,259

Edwin,
How does one make a shortcut like that? The shortcut properties dialog tells me that it's invalid. I tried quoting the values and that didn't work either. I also tried

Code:

rundll32.exe shell32.dll,259

which gives an error when run "Missing entry: 259"

pinkfloydx3 said:

Edwin,
How does one make a shortcut like that? The shortcut properties dialog tells me that it's invalid. I tried quoting the values and that didn't work either. I also tried

Code:

rundll32.exe shell32.dll,259

which gives an error when run "Missing entry: 259"

Create the shortcut using this identifier: explorer.exe ms-screenclip:



Fetch icon from here: %SystemRoot%\System32\shell32.dll

Edwin said:

Create the shortcut using this identifier: explorer.exe ms-screenclip:

Ah my mistake, I misread the original post. Thank you. I found out that you can get the same behavior using

Code:

Shift+WinKey+S

so the shortcut is moot in my case. But thanks anyway!