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Capture the whole screen: the Mac and Windows shortcut

macOS

Shift+Command+3

Windows

PrtScn

What catches people out

⇧⌘3 writes a PNG to the desktop. On Windows 11 PrtScn now opens Snipping Tool by default; on older builds it only copies to the clipboard. Win+PrtScn saves a file to Pictures\Screenshots.

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