Re: [TECH]:: WINDOWS 11 SCREENSHOTTING

This sounds like a side effect of Windows wanting to archive screenshots
every few seconds, that there was a lot of whoo-hah about a while back.




On Fri, 14 Feb 2025 at 13:36, Clint Jay <[email protected]> wrote:

> You can change the default operation of the PRTSCRN key under Win 11 in
> accessibility settings to return it to the "old" way or allow other
> software like Greenshot to work.
>
> On Fri, 14 Feb 2025, 13:31 RussellMc, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > If you know all this then Nothing to see here, This is not the Windows
> > feature demystification that you want, Move Along!
> > *** WINDOWS 11 SCREENSHOT *** Major changes to prior ( <= WIN10)
> operation.
> > Much is good BUT it also may try to do unrequested things, such as
> copying
> > all screenshots to OneDrive. See at end.
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCO80F8_uOs
> > <
> >
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCO80F8_uOs&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR0S86u2O4LLSZQvlejTxTi6IsCN7_zptw6J7VXrhYQ1eg_gvYqA3lUERY0_aem_MdYrjiuCTXgi0lEDnHuNIw
> > >
> > For most "as was" operation WINKEY-PrintScreen replaces Alt-PrintScreen.
> > PrintScreen alone opens the Snipping Tool. See video.|
> > If it copies to onedrive and you do not want it to you can open the
> > snipping tool, click on the 3 dots menu and open snipping tool settings
> and
> > change this. WHEN it is saving to Onedrive it also changes the local
> folder
> > to somewhere Onedrive related.
> > "Don't be evil" is not known to Microsoft. :-) (Steve Jobs (literally)
> > laughed
> > at the concept :-) ).
> >
> >
> > Russell
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