If you usually take a lot of screenshots on your Windows computer, this change will affect you.
Being the most widely used desktop operating system in the worldit is not surprising that each and every change made by Microsoft are analyzed with a magnifying glass by users, and that some of them are not entirely well received. Especially when what they do is change the operation of options that have been present for years on the platform.
Something like that It happened after the arrival of the new Windows 11 file explorerand now it’s happened again, with a totally different tool.
As we have learned thanks to portal Windows Latest, Microsoft has decided to remove a mythical feature from Windows as is the ability to take a full screen capture with a single touch on the “Print Scr” key on the keyboard.
Microsoft will push the use of the “Snipping” tool in the next version of Windows
Apparently the Windows 11 version KB5025310available for a few hours for users adhered to the beta channel, introduces a change in operation* from the Print Screen key.
If until now, pressing this key performed a full screen captureavailable to be pasted into any text or image editor, with the arrival of this new version replace this feature with the Snipping tool present in Windows for several generations.
The renewed snipping tool available in Windows 11
Thus, when you touch that key, instead of saving the image to the clipboard, the Snipping tool will open automaticallyadding an extra step to the process of taking a screenshot.
Fortunately, Is there a way to reverse the behavior of the Print Screen key to the original. For this, it will suffice access the Settings app of Windows 11, and within the “Accessibility” section, modify the keyboard settings to make the screenshot key again serve to do just that: capture the screen.
