Win+Shift+S Fails To Work Majority Of Times!

i made a thread about this previously and got many replies in how to correct this issue. But sadly even after a clean install the problem persists and i dunno why and or how to fix it. it seems broken more times than not but other times it works maybe 30% of the time. I've searched for close to a weeks worth of time overall in the span of nearly 2 years at this point now, Thats how long ive been having this issue. This is becoming the most difficult problem ive tried to fix every in the history ive owned PC's

So to quickly get people up to speed. Win+Shift+S is a shortcut tool for capturing selections (exactly like snip & sketch) and once captured it will push that to the action centre allowing for the user to edit later on or now if desired. Once clicked it pushes the snip to the app Snip & Sketch.

My issue is that this superb functionality is constantly having problems in that. Doing the shortcut and getting to the snipping portion of the tool or app etc were the screen turns grey and you get the cursor change all works fine but after you do your snip. it doesn't save anything and nothing is pushed to the action centre. And from this point on you cant even manually open S&S (Snip & Sketch) because the program thats running in the background.

Code:

ScreenClippingHost.exe

prevents any and all access to the shortcut Win+Shift+S OR S&S, Until the process is killed, in which case you can do the shortcut again or open S&S directly. Opening the folder of the executables location brings me to

Code:

C:\Windows\SystemApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.CBS_cw5n1h2txyewy

and upon trying to launch the exe directly it says im missing VCRUNTIME140_APP.DLL which is beyond confusing because i have all updated versions of all VC++ redistributable packages going far back as 2008 all the way to 2022. and the file has been found within

Code:

C:\Windows\servicing\LCU

im currently fully up to date on windows 10, even tho its constantly trying to keep pushing the same 21H1 update to me even tho i have it installed already. i heard people have found that alot of apps that were broken or buggy work fine on win11 however that is no a reason to upgrade purely for the fact to test and see if said function works or not.

Edition: Windows 10 Pro
Version: 21H1
Installed on: ‎07/‎01/‎2022
OS build: 19043.1645
Experience: Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.4170.0

im currently out of ideas and and options in what exactly to do in order to fix this. again id just like to reiterate that the thing ive having issue with isn't S&S. that program works fine if you manually open it then hit new and then snip. it saves to S&S clipboard and i can copy or save if need be. What my issue is with directly is something i dont know if i can uninstall and reinstall because there is no mention of it and reinstalling windows does not work as its been proven to bork again and again. even on a fresh install!

As always i greatly appreciated everyone's time that decides to look into this matter and assisting with this issue.

Bree said:

Even without a notification, the snip should have been copied to the Clipboard from where you can paste it anywhere you need it, into Paint, or even directly into a Ten Forums post. If you had seen a notification it would have said that.



To see notifications you need to make sure they are turned on....



...and a little lower down:



It's also worth checking that Focus Assist is not turned on.

prolly should have mentioned that everything regarding snip and sketch is as it should be. again like i mentioned it works sometimes but most of the time it doesn't. i have the settings for saving to clipboard enabled in snip & sketch i have focus assist off i have it turned on in action centre. once you snip it does not save anything and doesn't even push anything to action centre.

its like its stuck in limbo or something and because if running in task mgr i cant redo the shortcut again nor launch S&S manually because its preventing the user from doing the shortcut and or launching S&S.

i tried making a new local admin account on my PC and it works completely fine there but when i switch back to my current one it doesnt work.

3nd said:

here's some things you could try , if you haven't already

9 Best Ways to Fix Snip & Sketch Not Working on Windows 10 - TechWiser

again id just like to reiterate. this tool is not related snip & sketch. terminating or resetting or re-registering S&S etc etc etc does not effect Win+Shift+S which seems to be a completely separate thing. only once snipped does it get pushed as a snip & sketch to action centre.

ive tried all those tips multiple times in the past and some more than others for certain points and the folder is always unaffected.

3nd said:

if you just use PrntScrn instead of +shift+S , same problem?

yup, print screen when the option is enabled functions exactly the same as win+shift+s, its using something that in itself isn't related to S&S at all but interacts with it. People suggested on the tech.ms board to try restarting the capturing service. but that for me just makes me unable to do the shortcut until i restart my PC.

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Bree said:

If Windows is not working normally, then try opening a Command Prompt (admin) and running SFC /ScanNow to check for and fix possible system file corruption. If SFC finds problems it can't repair, then use DISM's RestoreHealth option, then run SFC again.


Run SFC Command in Windows 10

Use DISM to Repair Windows 10 Image

sfc and dism cmd's dont do anything sadly. also tried numerous times over the past year when i was still having the issue.

Bree said:

Where all else has failed, an in-place repair upgrade can often succeed.

Repair Install Windows 10 with an In-place Upgrade

DiBBz said:

sadly even after a clean install the problem persists and i dunno why and or how to fix it.

like i mentioned ive already done a fresh install at the start of the year and it repeatably continues to have the same problem