Always looking for improvements, some of them very subtle, Microsoft is working on supporting the "print screen" key.
Spotted by the Windows Latest site on the Windows beta channel, the KB5025310 update will be an interesting new feature for anyone who regularly uses the little screen capture tool built into the operating system. Since the launch of Windows 11, the tool in question has evolved considerably and is both more flexible and more advanced than it was when it was launched in Windows 10. However, its association with the "print screen" key still left something to be desired.
With this KB5025310 update, pressing the said key will no longer make a copy of the entire screen to store it in the Windows clipboard. Instead, Windows will simply launch the screen capture tool directly. Until now, you had to either click on the icon of the said module or use the shortcut Windows + Shift + S. To put it another way, Microsoft has simply simplified the keyboard shortcut leading to the opening of the tool.
There will undoubtedly be those who prefer to use their own tool to manage screen captures and this change in the behavior of a widely used key will obviously not be to everyone's taste. Microsoft has already thought of this and if opening the screen capture tool will be the default operation of the "print screen" key, it will be possible to disable this action via a new option added to the keyboard accessibility settings (Settings > Accessibility > Keyboard). That way, everyone is happy, right?
