Boomer screenshots: wondering why Windows still has no keyboard shortcut for saving a screenshot or screen snippet to disk
Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/14
With the disappearing PrtScn buttons on modern keyboards, boomer screenshots are about the only way to easily persist a screenshot, as these are the only available Windows screenshot shortcuts:
PrtScn: copies full screenshot to the clipboard; multiple invocations overwrite the clipboardWindows+PrtScn: saves full screenshot to a file; multiple invocations saves to new filesWindows+Shift+S: copies full screen or part of the screen to the clipboard, and allows manual action to start snippet tool to save the clipboard contents; often looses the image when on remote desktop connections or when copying something else to the clipboard; multiple invocations overwrite the clipboard
Now look at macOS what a choices, and how less messy than on Windows:
macOS has various shortcuts to save (partial) screenshots to clipboard or file
For macOS 10.14 Mojave and newer, you can even set the folder (default: Desktop) to save the screenshots to:
- For the settings, see [Wayback] Take a screenshot on your Mac – Apple Support,
- Back then also
Command+Shift+5was added to start the Screenshot app where you can apply these settings: [Wayback] Take screenshots or screen recordings on Mac – Apple Support.
I want this ease in Windows as well, and maybe I can in part without installing external tools and modifying existing shortcuts to make things easier:
- [Archive.is] iä iä Alex ftagn 🕹👾 on Twitter: “if you install PowerToys you can. it’s available from microsoft’s github. here’s a how-to (with links): … “
- [Wayback] How to Remap Any Key or Shortcut on Windows 10
Would you like to use a different keyboard key to perform a certain task in Windows 10? Thanks to PowerToys, it’s easy to remap any key to another key or even a shortcut combination on your keyboard. Here’s how to set it up.
Written after bumping into [Archive.is] Jeff Atwood on Twitter: “Someone just called a smartphone pic of their monitor a “boomer screenshot” and I literally LOLed 🤣… “
–jeroen
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