Launch Snip and Sketch app, not screenshot mode

MAWH · 03 Feb 2021

Hi all,

We have Windows set up for a work environment with customised start menus, and notifications disabled. We created a shortcut to the new Snip and Sketch app with the "%windir%\explorer.exe ms-screenclip:" method and it launches fine, screenshots are saved to the clipboard. But because notifications are blocked to the user that's it, there's no interface to do anything else or any prompt they can paste into a document etc.

Does anyone know how to launch directly to the app to get the full interface, as in attached image? As an admin I can just click it off the start menu. I basically just need to copy what is on the standard start menu to a custom shortcut. Thanks in advance.

dalchina · 03 Feb 2021

Hi, FWIW something similar is discussed here with no outcome that's useful to you:
windows 10 - Automatically open Snip & Sketch editor after using snipping tool with Win+Shift+S - Super User

MAWH · 03 Feb 2021

Thank you, always helps to see others working through.

I found this which gets me part way there - Snip & Sketch via Shift+Winkey+S doesn't save snip

"there's an alternative command: ms-screensketch:?source=QuickActions which directly opens the sketch app"

dalchina · 03 Feb 2021

The screenshot you show in post #1 is something like how the app appears when a screenshot has been captured and is loaded by the app. That command only launches the app as if to take a screenshot - a different result to what you wanted.

Problem is apps don't take parameters, so trying to get it to behave as you want would seem to require a script to launch it and then manipulate it in some way.

E.g. dragging and dropping an image onto it opens that image with the options you show in post #1.