: Press this button (sometimes also or ) and everything visible on your screen(s) is saved to the clipboard.
Here are the most important key combinations for screenshots in Windows 11: In addition, can be combined with other keys, for example, to capture only sections of a screen. In Windows 11, you can use the key to screenshot whatever is displayed and save it to the clipboard – the operating system’s temporary memory. In succeeding versions, the function has changed: became a versatile hotkey for creating screenshots in Windows. In the early days of personal computers, the key served a single practical purpose: to print displayed screen contents of operating systems like MS-DOS to paper.