Technology Microsoft set to change the Print Screen button so it opens the Snipping Tool in Windows 11

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Windows users don't like it when Microsoft changes long-used and familiar functions in its OS, so altering something that's been the same for 28 years is always going to bring controversy. Nevertheless, it seems that the Redmond firm is planning on changing the Print Screen button into a key that opens the Windows 11 Snipping Tool.

The Print Screen button has performed the same function in the Windows operating system since Windows 95: taking a screenshot of the current screen and copying it to the clipboard, usually so it can be edited in another program.

But Windows Latest discovered that Microsoft is changing the default function of the Print Screen key in Windows 11. In the Windows 11 Beta preview builds 22621.1546 and 22624.1546, hitting the key will open the Windows Snipping Tool, Windows' built-in screenshotting tool that's currently accessed by pressing the Windows logo Key + Shift + S.

The Windows 11 Snipping Tool, which combines features from the legacy Snipping Tool and Snip & Sketch, is pretty useful. The default rectangular mode lets users capture a select portion of the screen, meaning there's no need to crop a captured image. There's a freeform capture mode, a Window mode, and a full-screen mode. Moreover, it allows you to do a timed screen capture, and there's even a screen recorder mode within the Snipping Tool.

Microsoft set to change the Print Screen button so it opens the Snipping Tool in Windows 11

The Print Screen button has performed the same function in the Windows operating system since Windows 95: taking a screenshot of the current screen and copying it...

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[jonas]

I've been using the print screen button for snipping since years. It's just a toggle and one of the first things I change on every windows systems.

But how about instead of changing this they first fix their fucking broken and inhuman save system in office? The time I've lost due to Office dropping changes from my slides is probably enough to offset all windows users toggling the print screen functionality until the heat death of our universe.

Just move discarded autorecover files to the recycle bin maybe?

 

[The Helper]

That makes sense. I have no problem with it and it will probably make it better.