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 correspondent and author of Notepad, who has been covering ...

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 ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Sometimes it's very useful to be able to copy a snapshot or image of your Windows computer. You can do this by using either the Snipping tool or ...

When you press the PrtScr key on your keyboard, the whole screen is copied. If you want this PrintScreen key to copy a region of your screen instead of the whole screen, there is a way you can do it.

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 ...

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 ...

Windows 11 has plenty of useful preinstalled apps, and one of them is Snipping Tool. The built-in screen capture tool lets you record your screen, take screenshots, and even annotate live. It's a ...

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, ...

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, ...