Tuesday, January 6, 2026

ShareX My Favorite Snipping Tool

I may want to say something about it.
Nothing replaces it.

Text Extraction
No default hotkey is set up.
Go to the hotkey section and add
OCR > Ctrl + Alt + Print Screen

Windows has added text extraction to it's Snipping Tool but it is miserable. Too many clicks.
PowerToys text extraction is good and sometimes even better under some circumstances.


ShareX Set To Irfanview

I like ShareX to open a snip with IrfanView. Sometimes when updating, I lose that setting. This is one way to restore it. What likely change...