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.

Do you need to capture anything on your screen? Use the Snipping Tool in Windows 11. Here's how. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Learn how to disable Print Screen button to open screen snipping in Windows 11 using the Settings app and Windows Registry.

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, ...

A new Windows 11 update is available in the Beta channel. If you install this update or a newer one, it will change the function of your Print Screen key. The new default function will now open the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. A hot potato: Windows users don't like it when Microsoft changes long-used and familiar functions in ...

Microsoft is changing the default behavior of the Print Screen button on Windows 11. Don't like it? Here's how to change it back.