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 Windows Snipping Tool is a handy utility for capturing screenshots on your computer. It allows you to take snapshots of your entire screen, a specific window, or a user-defined area. Understanding ...

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 ...

You can take a screenshot of the entire screen in Windows using the Print key; the key combination Alt+Print captures an image of the currently open window. However, you can also set the Print key to ...

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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 ...

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Question: I have a dual display setup and pressing the print screen button grabs everything on both screens. Isn’t there an option for grabbing just what’s on one screen? Answer: Capturing something ...

The screen-capture utility built into Vista--and available for XP--has a couple of useful tricks up its sleeve. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' ...

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, ...