Windows 11 Is Finally Getting a Built-In Screen Recording Tool (theverge.com) 40
Microsoft is finally bringing a built-in screen recorder to Windows. The Verge reports: The Snipping Tool in Windows 11 will soon be updated to include screen recording, meaning Windows users won't have to rely on the Xbox Game Bar or third-party tools just to record their screens. Windows 11 testers will start getting access to the updated Snipping Tool today, and the new record option will allow you to record an entire screen or even a section that gets cropped. The update comes more than four years after Microsoft first introduced a new screenshot experience for Windows. [...] Microsoft has only just started testing this with Windows 11 testers in the Dev Channel, so it's likely some weeks or months before this Snipping Tool is released to everyone using Windows 11.
shit ui (Score:5, Insightful)
Now can we get a single setting to revert the fucked up UI back to Win10 style all at once? Microsoft really needs to quit hiding things from users, inserting extra steps to get things done isn't helping me. And if I wanted a Mac I would buy one, still copying Apple after all these years.
Being in IT I have to familiarize myself with these things, like it or not. Microsoft has really pushed out some turd OSs over the years, ME and Vista are standouts, seems like Win11 is next on the list. Besides the shit UI, win11 has had issues with AMD processors and its own updates, among other things.
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Now can we get a single setting to revert the fucked up UI back to Win10 style all at once?
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https://github.com/valinet/Exp... [github.com]
Yeah, no thanks.
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Now can we get a single setting to revert the fucked up UI back to Win10 style all at once?
Step 1: change the setting to left justify the start menu.
Step 2: stop complaining about pointless irrelevant shit like how much you don't like the corner radius of a window is a few pixels larger.
Done. Fixed. The interface is identical to Windows 10, and if you think otherwise maybe you just failed this autism test.
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Access to Task Manager?
Access to All Programs?
Access to expected right-click menu?
Those things will still be Win11 style after your single step. I'm talking about navigation and ease of use, not about window styles.
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It is not about me, I work in IT. It is about training everyone else.
What does Microsoft gain from moving functionality around? What do users gain? Microsoft is causing an unnecessary cognitive burden on Windows users, those that are not power users and like the mouse which is most people.
Should I tell the staff to 'grow the fuck up' when they are wasting time with IT instead of being productive?
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No, go back to Vista, 2K, XP, etc. They had better GUI.
LOL @ MS -- always late to the party (Score:4, Informative)
Meanwhile people have been using ShareX for over a decade.
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Re:LOL @ MS -- always late to the party (Score:4, Interesting)
Looking for anything on google new returns hit like - BEST SCREEN RECORDER TOOLS (UPDATED 2022) with nothing but a shitty list scraped from their respective websites.
Re: LOL @ MS -- always late to the party (Score:2)
Re: LOL @ MS -- always late to the party (Score:2)
battery draining feature (Score:2)
Snipping (Score:3)
They deprecated the old snipping tool for the new Win+Shift+S Snip and Share, but the new tool doesn't pop up the notification half the time, leading you to have to open up Paint or paste it into Discord or something to get your screenshot out, it's ridiculous. Under the old tool, you always got to review the screenshot and choose to save it or mark it up or discard it.
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I wonder if you have something setup wrong. I've never once experienced the notification not coming into the system. I say coming into the system instead of "pop up" since if you use the "focus" setting to silence notifications you can still get the screenshot if you open the notification pane.
Incidentally the Snipping tool wasn't depreciated. It is still the primary handler for screencapture so it is started somewhere when you hit the win+shift+s shortcut. But if you're going to start a tool to review the
Except... (Score:5, Informative)
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This! I was genuinely curious what is "new" here, other than a "journalist" saying "whaaaaaaaa!" It reminds me of the time (recently) the Verge ran a long article about the discovery of the undo button for the internet, as if Ctrl+shift+T to reopen the last closed tab hadn't existed for over a decade.
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provided your company didn't block install of the game bar. yep.
OBS Studio (Score:5, Informative)
Opensource commercial quality, screen recording is just a tiny aspect of what it can do: https://obsproject.com/ [obsproject.com]
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This! Great tool and I use it often for work to make how to videos for colleagues. It is good in that it can record a specific window as well leaving your desktop untouched.
And if you can't install it for some reason well you can always just hit win+g, because the xbox game bar has had a built in screen recorded for 3 years now.
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I see what you mean. The closest approximation would be to select a source and then add a scene that narrows down the captured area.
Windows 3.1 "Recorder" (Score:4, Interesting)
Does anyone remember how Windows 3.1 had a "Recorder" tool that would record and keyboard mouse actions on a window?
Better late than never I guess (Score:1)
It was so stupid (Score:2)
But my plain home machine had recording, may be for streamers or gamers or whatever.
I was remote-desk-topping from home to work to record some animations of Finite Element Analysis results. Then I stumbled on to a "feature" in power point that had screen recording!
Then it clicked! Enterprise customers could be persuaded to pay for Office 365 to get screen recording that Windows plain and not platinum
Linux had this in 2012 (Score:4, Interesting)
Sure, arguably SimpleScreenRecorder qualifies as "third party" since it's not shipped with any distro I'm aware of. But it's free, it's easy to install, and its 'About' info indicates first copyright in 2012. I've used it a few times to capture videos - with sound - that I can't create local copies of any other way.
News? Really? I guess I've been using Linux long enough now that the Microsoft mindset and ecosystem just seem clunky, alien, and downright hostile.
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If you're going to try and start a "we had it first" pissing contest then it's worth noting that Windows 3.1 had a screen recorder.
Honestly no one cares what other OS had what when. Let's focus on the stupidity of Microsoft depreciating features, and the even bigger stupidity of Microsoft introducing features their system already has, ... like hitting Win+G on any windows 10 machine and then hitting the "record" button in the top left of the screen.
Honestly nothing Microsoft's ecosystem provides is anywhere
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Honestly nothing Microsoft's ecosystem provides is anywhere near as hostile as Linux users masturbating over a feature they have in public. Do that stuff in private.
Masturbating? Really? That's quite a 'fertile' imagination you have there...
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Masturbating? Really? That's quite a 'fertile' imagination you have there...
Not really. You can masturbate while shooting blanks as well.
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Masturbating? Really? That's quite a 'fertile' imagination you have there...
Not really. You can masturbate while shooting blanks as well.
So your imagination shoots blanks?
Year of Windows (Score:4, Funny)
Finally this is the year of Windows on the desktop! It's finally catching with features that Linux has had since at least 2006 with xvidcap. Hopefully it will become more user-friendly, more productive with this release! Finally, perhaps it will catch up with Linux and its desktop environments - such as Plasma/KDE - very soon.
I prefer an OS without ads and forced stores (Score:2)
Vertical taskbar (Score:1)
Windows 11 Notepad Crashed, Yesterday (Score:2)
Nice but... (Score:2)
It might not have been the default option for a while but this is a feature I'm so used to that it really pisses me off that they've removed it from Win 11.
They have brought back other missing features after complaints from "insiders" (people who test beta versions of Win 11 and report back to MS) so they might bring this back as well but this should've been in the first release of Win 11.
So people say this feature is not a big deal. You