Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is getting ready to change how the Print Screen (Prt Scr ...

You can now start the snipping tool with the Print key: At the top of the screen you can select whether you want to mark a rectangle, a free form, the current window, or the entire screen.

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.

Want to prevent Print Screen from opening the Snipping Tool? Use this Settings toggle to turn the behavior off. Most users, however, don’t like their established patterns and routines changed ...

Nevertheless, it seems that the Redmond firm is planning on changing the Print Screen button into a key that opens the Windows 11 Snipping Tool. The Print Screen button has performed the same ...

In the latest Insider builds of Windows 11, the Print Screen button activates the built-in Snipping Tool. There is already an option to do this in Windows. To activate it, you'll have to dive into ...

But in a beta build released earlier this month, the company changed something even older: Pressing the Print Screen button on your keyboard will open the Snipping Tool rather than copying the ...

Along with the default Print Screen shortcuts, Windows 11 also has a built-in app that lets you click and drag to select specific areas to screenshot: Snipping Tool. Snipping Tool incorporates a ...

For example, you can use the Win+Shift+S shortcut, remap the PrintScreen key, use Snipping Tool, etc. To print the entire screen, you can use Win+Shift+S and select the entire screen using your mouse.

For any device with the most recent versions of Windows 11, pressing the Print Screen key will open the Snipping Tool, which you can read more about below. If you only want to save an image of the ...

To take a screenshot on Windows 10 or 11, you can use the Print Screen button or Snipping Tool. You can also take a screenshot with the Game Bar by pressing the Windows Key + G. Third-party apps ...

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 ...