Good morning Carol & Barb I couldn't find the snipping tool on my vista program either when I clicked on the the little arrows by the ball in the lower left hand corner. So I clicked on the ball itself and when that screen came up, in the little space at the bottom where it says "start search" I typed in "clipping tool" and it came up. I use this space quite often because I have a very bad tremor and sometimes things just don't go where I intend them to so I use that search tool to find them. I used to have XP but do not remember how it worked but it might be worth giving that a try. Gloria