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, ...

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 ...

The Print Screen key or 'Prt Sc' has been on keyboards since the dawn of desktop computing, where back in the 1980s, it would send stuff on your screen over to a physical printer to print it out while ...

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 OS comes with a built-in screenshot utility called Snipping Tool that we all are well aware of. Snipping Tool utility lets you capture screenshots in free-form mode, window, rectangle mode, ...

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 ...

QUESTION: Why does nothing happen when I press the Print Screen key? ANSWER: The "Print Screen" key (abbreviated as PrtSc or PrtScn) has been around since the 1980s and is just one of many ways to ...

Windows offers several built-in ways to take screenshots. Sure, you can just hit the Prt Scrn button on your keyboard to capture your entire screen, but if you want to screenshot a portion of your ...

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 ...