Traditionally, the legacy “Print Screen” or PrtScn button in your keyboard has been what you’d use to take a fast, straightforward snapshot of no matter is in your display. Now, that characteristic is altering quickly—though you don’t must let it.

Earlier this month, Microsoft started pushing Build 22624.1546 to the Windows Insider Beta Channel—the channel for adjustments that will come to your PC someday sooner or later. That construct adjustments the conduct of the PrtScn button. Instead of triggering the Print Screen operate, it opens the Snipping Tool app as an alternative by default.

To be truthful, the Snipping Tool app is sort of versatile. It doesn’t supply the one-click performance of PrtScn, however the device does supply a full-screen snip functionality, identical to the legacy shortcut. It additionally affords the power to “snip” no matter’s in your present window, all the display, or a customized area. Microsoft even plans on including the power to record video clips from the Snipping Tool, so that you’ll be capable to document a small video of find out how to do one thing… like a display snip.

What it’s possible you’ll not know is that this performance is already reside in Windows 11, which additionally permits you to flip it off. If you enter the Windows Settings menu, it is best to see Accessibility, then Keyboard. There’s a selected choice to “Use the Print screen button to open screen snipping.” That’s most definitely off by default.

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Microsoft says that it’ll protect that choice even when the brand new performance is pushed to Windows customers someday sooner or later. We suspect that gained’t be the case, however not less than you know the way to regulate it as soon as it does.

So, is the standard PrtScn or “Print Screen” operate goes away? Probably not. On our take a look at machine (a Microsoft Surface, which typically displays Microsoft’s adjustments), the “Print Screen” operate nonetheless works, though there’s no “flash” to point that it does. Simply opening Paint and pasting onto the canvas utilizing CTRL-V, nevertheless, works simply nice.

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Most customers, nevertheless, don’t like their established patterns and routines modified with out their consent. Microsoft is doing simply that, however you’ll be able to undo the adjustments when you like.