How to screenshot in Windows 11

The Print Screen key in Windows 11 has changed. Now if you hit the "Prt Scn" key, what it
will do is actually open up the Snipping Tool. So if you want to actually do a print screen like you would have done in the past using the print screen key, you have to hit [Windows]+[Prt Scn] and your screen will flash. Or you can hit Fn+Windows+Space (Press and hold Function, then Windows key, then Space, then release all keys) and that also works in lieu of a print screen key if your keyboard doesn't have one. You can if you want to then change the functionality of that print screen key to not open up the Snipping Tool. Go into settings, search for print screen, then select it, and at the bottom you'll see that there is a use print screen key to open screen capture. And when you disable that now the print screen key will no longer open up the Snipping Tool. And where the print screen screens will save to is in the Screenshots folder. So here you can see that I have all my print screens saved into the folder as expected.
This is a tutorial for manually taking screenshots and not how Windows Recall on Copilot+ PCs takes or stores snapshots used for that process.
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[@DeployJeremy]

Hope this how-to is helpful for taking screenshots. Let me know if there are others you'd like to see.

[@do8747]

@@DeployJeremy Previously I used to only use one key for screenshot. Now I’m taking a screenshot with ‘FN key + PrtSc’
I was wondering if you can take a screenshot with only one key? Because previously on my Asus laptop I was able to do it with only ‘PrtSc’ and it would save it via OneDrive.

[@do8747]

I was looking for this feature for a long time bro. I knew It had to be somewhere, but couldn't find it... I used to use this easy screenshot feature like you showed in the video 'just one click'.
Somehow I only got the snipping tool to see, but now I can just screenshot everything that I need without opening that stupid snipping tool)
God bless you brother or sister.

[@DeployJeremy]

It's Windows 11 and a relatively recent addition. There is a keyboard shortcut for the recorder: Shift+Windows+R (Snipping Tool is Shift+Windows+S)