Microsoft is testing changes to how the print screen button works in Windows 11, causing it to open the Windows Snipping Tool rather than copying a screenshot to the clipboard. Since Windows 95, ...

Microsoft is changing the default behavior of the "Print Screen" key In an upcoming update, the Print Screen key will be changed to launch the Snipping Tool instead. Luckily, Microsoft will allow ...

Windows 11 has modernized many Windows features that haven’t been updated in a long time, including venerable apps like Notepad and Sound Recorder. But in a beta build released earlier this month, the ...

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The Print Screen button on Windows computers has been associated with screen capture for decades. A new beta version of Windows 11 now opens the Snipping Tool when the Print Screen button is used.

The 'Print screen" button has a place on almost every keyboard in the world. But how useful is it on Windows? Not very—an image of your entire screen is rarely the best way to save something in the ...

You should use the Win+PrtScrn shortcut to capture the entire screen and the Alt+PrtScrn key combination to take screenshots of the active window and copy it to the clipboard. The Snipping Tool lets ...

It’s the first big change to the Print Screen button in decades. It’s the first big change to the Print Screen button in decades. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all ...