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Windows Snipping Tool for Windows XP/2003
By admin | April 27, 2009
Update (2009-07-12): Download links for isxunpack.exe and i6comp.exe added.
Microsoft’s new Snipping Tool in Windows Vista and higher makes it easier to take screenshots of pictures than having to do Print Screen. There is a backport of this tools called Snipping Tool, but it will only install if it thinks you are running on a Tablet PC. It is part of the Microsoft Experience Pack for Tablet PC package which also features the Royale theme. However, it will only install on a tablet PC and on nothing else. Here is how to extract and run it on a regular PC.
Requirements
- WinRAR
- i6comp.exe
- isxunpack.exe
Instructions
- Download Microsoft Experience Pack for Tablet PCs.
- Attempt to run it and you should receive an error message about how it can only run on tablet PCs.
- Extract the .msi file from the installer by right clicking and selecting “Extract to InstallExperiencePack\“.
- Open a command line and navigate to the newly created directory and type in “msiexec /a Launcher.msi“.
- A window should pop up. Click next and specify a temporary directory.
- After files have been extracted, open the directory in Explorer and navigate to the “Microsoft\Experience Pack\Data” sub-directory.
- Rename SnipTool.dat to SnipTool.exe.
- Open a command line and navigate to the directory and copy isxunpack.exe into it.
- Run “isxunpack SnipTool.exe” in the command line.
- Browse to the new sub-directory “Disk1“.
- Open a command line and navigate to the new directory and copy i6comp.exe into it.
- Run “i6comp.exe e data1.cab” and ignore the errors.
- In the Disk1 directory, look at the file SnippingTool.exe and run the file.
Note that the tool will not run on nLited Windows installs without IE/WMP.
Screenshots
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Topics: Windows | 14 Comments »
July 10th, 2009 at 3:21 pm
Since isxunpack.exe is almost impossible to get, do you know of another tool that will do the same job?
July 17th, 2009 at 6:01 am
file SnippingTool.exe is not see in step 12-13
July 27th, 2009 at 7:17 pm
I got an error saying “Could not load/init the much needed ZData dll” and SnippingTool.exe is not there on step 12-13.
September 1st, 2009 at 11:09 am
same error step 12-13
September 5th, 2009 at 9:35 am
Or you can get both Vista & Tablet PC snipping tool working on XP: http://www.wincert.net/forum/index.php?/topic/4069-get-vista-snipping-tool-sticky-notes-inkball-texas-holdem-rtm-ported-to-xp/
September 9th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Anyone Get around the error” Could not load/init the much needed ZData dll”? If so, how?
Let me know…
October 29th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Get this version of i6comp it resolved the zdata error others have noted.
http://www.myplc.com/sony/bin/i6comp.zip
November 2nd, 2009 at 1:38 pm
Link Chris provided worked, i6comp.exe is located at the “Resource” folder. Thanks. Got it to run but there were no errors found, unlike step 12. SnippingTool.exe and other extracted files are located in the” \Disk1″ folder. Running the program didn’t work; received this error: “Snip Tool has encountered problem, needs to close”. Then another error shortly: “DDE server did not acknowledge the command. App=, Topic=”.
I am running Windows XP Pro, SP2.
January 26th, 2010 at 5:30 pm
didnt work for me either. i got the same errors as everyone else when it came down to the last step and the link provided is broken. i tried finding another i6comp.exe on the web, i got the files scrolling but i get teh same error the other guy is getting. snip tool has encountered and error and needs to close. o well.
February 11th, 2010 at 1:04 pm
i6comp can be found here, and it worked for the extract:
http://www.cdmediaworld.com/cgi-bin/dl.cgi?f=i6comp02!zip
February 13th, 2010 at 6:02 pm
same error “Microsoft Snipping Tool has encountered a problem and needs to close”Then another error shortly: “DDE server did not acknowledge the command. App=, Topic=”.
any ideas?
February 17th, 2010 at 1:14 pm
I get the “Microsoft Snipping Tool has encountered a problem and needs to close”; but not the second error? Looking to see if moving some files to system32 helps….
February 17th, 2010 at 3:14 pm
Grabbed a Tablet and checked the directory structure:
Add these:
SnippingTool.cur
SnippingTool.exe.manifest
SnippingTool.exe
SnipMgr.exe
SnipMgr.exe.manifest
SnippingTool.chm
interop.shdocvw.dll
to directory
‘C:\Program Files\Microsoft Experience pack\Snipping Tool’
The following REG Keys are there too:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\snipfile
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\SnipMgr.exe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\snipfile
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Applications\SnipMgr.exe
I’ll copy/create them and test…
February 17th, 2010 at 4:13 pm
No luck, still do not get the second message everyone else does:
“DDE server did not acknowledge the command. App=, Topic=”
The snipfile reg key contains info for ‘App=’ and ‘Topic=’
Application data is “SnippingTool”
Topic data is “system”
snipfile structure is:
snipfile –> Name-(Default) Type- REG_SZ Data- Microsoft Snipping Tool file
|
DefaultIcon –> Name- (Default) Type- REG_SZ Data- “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Experience pack\Snipping Tool\SnippingTool.exe”
shell –> name- (Default) Type- REG_SZ Data- (value not set)
|–> Open –> name- (Default) Type- REG_SZ Data- (value not set)
|–> command –> name- (Default) Type- REG_SZ Data- “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Experience pack\Snipping Tool\SnipMgr.exe” /dde
| –> ddeexec –> Name- (Default) Type- REG_SZ Data- Open(“%1″)
|–> application –> Name- (Default) Type- REG_SZ Data- SnippingTool
|–> topic –> Name- (Default) Type- REG_SZ Data- system
SnipMgr.exe is
SnipMgr.exe –> Name- (Default) Type- REG_SZ Data (value not set); Name- NoOpenWith Type- REG_SZ Data-
That’s all I can find…