For decades, the functionality of the Print Screen key in Windows has remained largely unchanged, but for operating systems as well, times are changing and Microsoft is getting ready. apply change this will predictably cause many users to take positions in favor and against others.

According to The Verge, the Redmond company will change the way Impr Pant works on Windows 11 and later. Now, when you press the aforementioned key, the operating system takes a screenshot and copies it to the clipboard. This will no longer be the case as the Snipping tool will open instead.

Change to default functionality

The change was first distributed among Windows Insider users, that is, in development versions of the operating system. who install KB5025310 update they will encounter the new behavior of the Print Screen key, although they can easily undo the change if they prefer the previous settings.

To leave the Snipping tool behind and go back to the screenshots saved in the clipboard, we must go to Settings> Accessibility> Keyboard and change the function of the Print Screen key from this section, remember, we can also combine it with other shortcuts. keyboard.

For example, by pressing Alt + Print Screen we capture the active screen (not all screens, if any). multiple monitors) and save it to the clipboard. Win + Shift + S opens the Snipping tool and allows us to select a specific area for the capture, which will then be saved to the clipboard.

Win + Print Screen takes a generic screenshot saved in the default system screenshots folder. The latter is very useful if we don’t want to paste each screenshot into an image editor like Paint or Photoshop, as we mentioned in an article on Xataka Basics.

The key in question, also shown as Print Scrn or PS, ms-dos times. Back then, as you can imagine, it had a different functionality than it does today. It did not take a screenshot saved to a file, but resorted to a printer to print what was on the screen.

With the advent of operating systems with a graphical user interface, the Print Screen function replaced the printer, creating an image that is digitally stored in the system and whose behavior has accompanied us all this time.

Images: Self capture

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