No. Snipping Tool cannot capture a scrolling window, and it never could — not in Windows 10, not in Windows 11, and not in any preview build. It captures a rectangle, a freeform shape, a single window or the whole screen, and nothing taller than what is on screen right now.
This is worth stating plainly because the web is full of pages titled "how to take a scrolling screenshot in Windows 10 using Snipping Tool", and they all end up describing something else — a browser feature, a third-party tool, or taking several snips and gluing them together by hand.
Why the confusion exists
Snipping Tool has genuinely grown. It now records video with Win+Shift+R, extracts text with OCR, redacts e-mail addresses and phone numbers, and picks colours. So when people hear it gained features, scrolling capture is the one they assume arrived — because it is the one most often asked for.
It did not. The request has been open for years, and Microsoft has not announced any plan to add it. PowerToys does not have it either: it ships Screen Ruler, Text Extractor and Color Picker, and a scrolling capture tool remains an open feature request on its issue tracker rather than something you can install.
What to use instead
The right answer splits cleanly in two, and the split is the single most useful thing on this page.
If it is a web page — your browser already does it, free
No download, no extension. Pick your browser:
- Microsoft Edge — press Ctrl+Shift+S for Web capture, then choose Capture full page.
- Firefox — right-click anywhere on the page, choose Take Screenshot, then Save full page.
- Chrome and other Chromium browsers — open DevTools with F12, press Ctrl+Shift+P, type screenshot and choose Capture full size screenshot.
If your long thing is a web page, stop here. You do not need us, and anyone telling you otherwise is selling something.
If it is not a web page — nothing built into Windows will do it
A chat thread in a desktop app, a tall invoice in an accounting program, a settings list that runs three screens deep, a table inside a panel that scrolls on its own: there is no browser to ask, and Snipping Tool stops at the screen edge. This is the case that needs a capture tool with a scrolling mode, which scrolls the region itself and stitches the frames into one tall image.
Why the manual workaround disappoints
Taking four snips and joining them in an image editor sounds fine until you try it. Three things go wrong, every time:
- A repeated band at every seam. Anything that follows the viewport as you scroll — a sticky header, a floating toolbar, a cookie banner — gets captured again in every shot.
- Doubled or dropped rows. Scrolling by hand never lands on an exact boundary, so a line of text is either repeated or lost at the join.
- Missing sections. Pages that load content as you scroll may not have loaded it yet when you captured.
Our full guide to capturing a long page covers all three in detail, including how to fix them.
Where Screen Slinger fits
Screen Slinger is our own product, so treat this section accordingly. It handles the second case — the one Windows leaves open.
- Automatic scrolling capture for any scrollable region, browser or not. It scrolls the window itself, stops at the bottom on its own, and detects sticky headers so they appear once instead of at every seam.
- Pixel-accurate stitching, so the joins do not double or drop rows.
- Then annotate it — arrows, speech-bubble callouts and auto-numbered step markers, all staying editable objects you can move next month rather than pixels you have to paint over.
What it will not do
- Infinite-scroll feeds. A timeline that never ends cannot be captured whole — by us or by anything else.
- Video. Still images only. If you want to record the scroll, Snipping Tool's own recorder is free and already installed.
- Be free forever. 30 days with everything unlocked, then $15 once. No account, no subscription.
Snipping Tool, PowerToys, Windows and Edge are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation; the names are used here solely to identify the products being described, and Screen Slinger is not affiliated with Microsoft. Snipping Tool gains features frequently — everything above was checked against Microsoft's documentation and current reporting in September 2026. If Microsoft ships scrolling capture, this page will say so.