Windows Print Screen -

It was literal. It was mechanical. It was loud.

This is the fastest shortcut on modern Windows. It brings up that same Snipping Tool bar, but instead of saving a file, it copies the snip to your clipboard as an image and a file simultaneously. windows print screen

Believe it or not, the name isn't a typo. Back in the days of MS-DOS (the 1980s), the key worked exactly as advertised. When you pressed PrtScr , the computer would dump the entire contents of the text-based screen directly to your printer. If you had a dot-matrix printer, you’d get a physical, paper copy of your command prompt. It was literal