Microsoft is changing the Print Screen key to open its Snipping Tool on Windows 11

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Microsoft is changing the Print Screen key to open its Snipping Tool on Windows 11

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A user types on the Surface Pro 8 from behind. The screen displays the Windows 11 Start menu on a white and blue background.

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Microsoft is getting ready to change how the Print Screen (Prt Scr) key works in Windows 11. For the first time in decades the default behavior will now open Microsoft’s own Snipping Tool instead of capturing an image of your entire screen and copying it to the Clipboard. Microsoft has started testing this change in recent beta builds of Windows 11.

While Windows 11 already has a setting to allow you to change Print Screen to open the Snipping Tool, Microsoft will set this as the default behavior in the upcoming KB5025310 update. If you have previously modified the option in Settings > Accessibility > Keyboard then Windows 11 will keep the setting you chose, but for many this will be switched over.

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