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Greenshot does not work in Visual Studio

Anyone know why you cannot use Greenshot in Visual Studio? I hit the Screen Print button and it does not bring up the cross-hairs to drag my window size. Instead it just takes a plain windows screenshot. I looked for keyboard commands that might override it but didnt see anything at first glance. It works for every other program but not when Visual Studio is the active window.

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BinaryNexus Avatar asked Feb 04 '16 20:02

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It's because your visual studio is running in a higher level (permission wise) than your greenshot instance.

for a one time test, close Greenshot, and run it as administrator (right click on the file, run as administrator).

As a more permanent solution, you can just set the compatibility mode for the file to be run in admin mode, and then when it's started on start up it should capture your VS instances as well :).

run as admin

Edit: Just in case, you can easily figure out if anything else is wired to a shortcut by doing the following:

figure out who's using a shortcut

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Noctis Avatar answered Sep 21 '22 14:09

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