Just went to the bother of taking 12 full-screen screenshots only to discover that if you take a full-screen window screenshot with Windows 10's "Snipping Tool" it is defaced with a single-pixel fragment of the Snipping Tool UI. Every time. All these screenshots are now potentially useless. This is the thing Microsoft aggressively deprecated the old "Print Screen" tech for.

I am continually shocked that Microsoft is a real company that actually delivers the software they deliver.

Okay yeah the single-line defacing is also present if you do a normal full-screen screenshot instead of window-selecting. I… I don't know what to do here. Like I do not know how to proceed. I have just discovered my operating system does not have a screenshot functionality that is able to accurately represent the screen at the moment of screenshot.

@mcc windows-G will load the "game bar" overlay, which has a much better (eg HDR aware) screenshot function via windows-alt-printscr

@directhex So I feel like I've gone to quite a lot of trouble to uninstall the game bar but just out of curiosity is this still usable if my keyboard does not have a printscr button

@mcc I think there's a button you can click in the game bar.

But if you intentionally removed the functionality, the functionality is removed

@directhex I assumed I would not need a game bar to take screenshots because I was under the misapprehension that the basic operating system contained a screenshot tool. I am now learning this is not and never was accurate

@mcc I learned to love the game bar because the snipping tool sucks if you have an HDR display (it blows out brightness in images totally)

@directhex I continue to be very surprised that windows 10 is a real operating system and I am not in Linux

@mcc @directhex windows actually do some scheduling task with the game bar, only for hybrid cpus (as far as I know). So if you have a morden Intel cpu, or an upcoming AMD cpu I would recommend installing the game bar.

@ekg @directhex I do not understand what you are saying.

@mcc @directhex on morden Intel cpus you have e-cores as well as p-cores, the game bar picks what process is placed on what kind of core. Without the game bar all processes share all cores.