{"id":53877,"date":"2023-08-06T10:20:56","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T09:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/53877\/disable-windows-print-key-for-snipping-tool\/"},"modified":"2023-08-06T10:25:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T09:25:40","slug":"disable-windows-print-key-for-snipping-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/53877\/disable-windows-print-key-for-snipping-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Disable Windows Print Key for Snipping Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Print key<\/em> on the keyboard is used by default to take screenshots. Until now, if you did not have any other screenshot tools installed, tapping the Print<\/em> key would take a screenshot of the entire monitor and place it on the clipboard. This allowed the screenshot to be pasted into Paint<\/em> or another graphics program for further editing. In my case, I still had the SnagIt<\/em> installed for such screenshots, which responded directly to the Print key and opened.<\/p>\n

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For some time now, however, Windows has been bugging me because this familiar behavior is no longer there. Since an update of Windows 11 (KB5026446), Windows’ own snipping tool opens automatically. This function hard overwrites the functionalities of any third-party software, such as Snagit, and the old behavior with direct storage of the monitor screenshot in the clipboard is also no longer given.<\/p>\n

But all this fits in very well with the strategy that Windows is pursuing very noticeably to bind the user more and more closely to its own software products, which are often delivered on-board with Windows. Those who did not know the snipping tool yet will get to know it now at the latest and will probably use it primarily to look up third-party providers of such screenshot software.<\/p>\n

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