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02-13-2021 06:46 AM
To the right of the f12 key is a key for ins and prt sc . ins works in combination with the fn key; prt sc works by itself.
I have no use for prt sc, in fact, it's very annoying because I accidentally hit it all the time when I intend to hit the delete key which is just to the right of it. I'd like to either disable the prt sc funtion or switch it with the ins function. If prt sc were a 2-key function, then I'd never accidentally do it. I'm about ready to try to physically pull the ins - prt sc key out of the keyboard to stop it from saving pictures of my emails, personal documents, etc.
I did find another post where there are instructions for moving the location of the saved prt sc files, so I'm hoping that will at least put them in one place where I can delete them regularly. By default they've been going to OneDrive and seem to proliferate on Amazon and Google clouds. Whenever I open those on my phone, tablet, or laptop, I find more copies of these screen shots that I didn't know were there. Hopefully changing the default location to my C: drive will stop that.
Thanks,
02-14-2021 01:30 PM
There is a third-party utility named FastKeys that allows you to define and swap key functions -- you can get it from here: https://fastkeysautomation.com/
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