Microsoft is planning a change to the default function of the Print Screen button for Windows 11 users. Typically, pressing the button sends a snapshot of what's on your monitor to the clipboard. In ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...

Screenshots are nothing short of a lifesaver, especially when it comes to capturing and sharing on-screen content quickly and efficiently. Screenshots, or as some like to call them screengrabs, save ...

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 ...

If you need to capture everything on your screen in an image, you need to take a screen capture. The standard method to capture the screen is by pressing the "Print Screen" or "Prt Scr" button on your ...

When you're viewing a Web page or an image on your computer, you may want to take a screenshot to look at later. Web pages change regularly, for example, so taking a screenshot is a useful way to ...

This is a new series called “Paul’s doing it wrong and everyone is smarter than Paul and if he’d only just listened...” where I explain something dumb I’ve done in my life and people at work can’t ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. It’s the first big change to the Print Screen button in decades. It’s the first big change to the Print Screen ...