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.

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 ...

Traditionally, the legacy “Print Screen” or PrtScn button on your keyboard has been what you’d use to take a quick, easy snapshot of whatever is on your screen. Now, that feature is changing ...

We need to take screenshots of our desktop a number of times; mostly to share them with someone. All Windows machines have the ability to take screenshots using the Print Screen (PrntScr or PrtScn) ...

To take a screenshot on Windows 10, you can use the PrtScn button on your keyboard or tools like Snip & Sketch. If you want to take a screen recording, you can use the Game Bar by pressing Windows Key ...

First, you can use the Alt key to take a screenshot of the foreground application, even when multiple applications are open at the same time. The first image below shows my desktop with four different ...

If you need to capture a screenshot of something on your computer screen, Windows 10 offers a variety of methods for doing just that. Whether you want to save the entire screen, or just a piece of it, ...

The print screen button now opens the snipping tool in a Windows 11 update.Photo by Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images A new Microsoft Windows 11 update marks the end of an era: Using the Print ...