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It does give you an easy toggle: Settings -> Accessibility -> Keyboard -> Use the PrtScr key to open Snipping Tool.
At least until a forced update "accidentally" changes it back.
it's not related to edge/bing so it doesn't affect revenue
I'm now ready to paste it everywhere, which is my main user case.
Do I need to paint on it? Click the notification and edit as you want, then control+c and continue.
Need to save to a file? Click the notification and press the save button.
Need to make a window screenshot or a full desktop one? After the screen goes dark you have buttons at the top to change the selection mode.
To me this makes the most sense, saving directly to a file that you later need to find and open to edit/copy is rather slow, except if you want to user it as a "visual background log" maybe...
This is just another change for change sake in a long list of stupid that does nothing but get in the way of productive people trying to get things done. Spam in start menu. Dumbed down context menus you have to remove before you can get at what you want. Real control panels hidden behind dumbed down ones with incomplete functionality. Calendar gone from bottom right clock app without trying to google how to get it b…
Same applies to other commercial OSes, Google IO hardly brigns anything new that I care about for Android since several years, I already lost track of how many times they have rebooted background services or notification APIs.
The Year of Desktop Linux would be nice, yet even there I lost track of how many audio stacks, laptop support, distribution specific changes just because, and what not, has happened during the last 25 years.
This is just another change for change sake in a long list of stupid that does nothing but get in the way of productive people trying to get things done. Spam in start menu. Dumbed down context menus you have to remove before you can get at what you want. Real control panels hidden behind dumbed down ones with incomplete functionality. Calendar gone from bottom right clock app without trying to google how to get it b…
You're getting downvoted, but this is precisely what has been going on. The root cause is that Microsoft hired a bunch of UX designers to revamp Windows 11, but all of them are Mac users. They're basically copying the MacOS style into Windows, whether it makes sense or not. They don't even use Windows, so they're not eating their own dog food. To them, "success" is that it looks superficially "Mac-like", job done. Li…
Then again, it fits the ongoing mess of GUI civil war happening in Redmond across Forms, WPF, UWP, WinUI, MAUI, MFC and of course one gets to put Blazor everywhere there is a Web widget, including the previous set of GUI frameworks.
Wasn't Microsoft the "let's not break backwards compatibility for any reason" company? Coming from software development, we do have tests that insert a screenshot into the report in case they fail, and I'm assuming we are not the only ones that found the PrtScr button to be useful for that
I haven't used PrintScreen button since Windows 10. Now my preferred is combo Windows + Shift + S
So is mine, but I hate the delay. I miss many moments because "Snipping Tool" sometimes takes too long to load. At least PrtScr was consistently instant. That said, the feature is behind a setting and can be turned off if needed.
I think we have to endure this advantage of UWP on Windows, haven't us?
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Luckily you can change those settings in the keyboard shortcuts (in the standard OS settings). I wouldn't be so sure that Microsoft will give you an easy toggle in the new control panel for this behaviour.
It does give you an easy toggle: Settings -> Accessibility -> Keyboard -> Use the PrtScr key to open Snipping Tool.
Good on Microsoft, I guess!
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Greenshot [1] should be able to do this as long as that option is disabled on Windows [2]. [1]: https://getgreenshot.org/ [2]: https://getgreenshot.org/faq/my-prntscreen-key-no-longer-wor...
I'd love to use Greenshot more, but it seems unfixably broken on hi-res monitors.
FWIW, I’m already used to Win+Shift+S by now which I assume does the same thing?
What annoys me to no end is that it only saves to clipboard. There's no easy way to have it as an image. The many settings and workarounds described around internet don't exist/don't work on Home edition.
"%LocalAppData%\Packages\MicrosoftWindows.Client.CBS_cw5n1h2txyewy\TempState\ScreenClip"
I have a WSL2 cronjob that does an rsync to the Pictures folder, but its ridiculous how dogshit it is, not only obvious missing functionality but how it takes multiple seconds to do a capture.