Microsoft has, however, included a way to revert this change by going to the Settings > Accessibility > Keyboard menu and toggling the 'Use the Print Screen key to open Snipping Tool' to off.

The Print Screen button on Windows computers has been associated with screen capture for decades. A new beta version of Windows 11 now opens the Snipping Tool when the Print Screen button is used.

You can take a screenshot on a Dell laptop or desktop computer in several ways, but the easiest is to simply press the Print Screen key.

If the Snipping Tool keeps popping up on your Windows 11/10 computer, the solutions provided in this article will help you fix this problem.

Microsoft is poised to make the first major change to Print Screen functionality in years. In the latest Insider builds of Windows 11, the Print Screen button activates the built-in Snipping Tool.

Microsoft is testing changes to how the print screen button works in Windows 11, causing it to open the Windows Snipping Tool rather than copying a screenshot to the clipboard.

An update to Windows 11 will change the function of the Print Screen key so that it will now open up the Snipping Tool.