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Solved Forcing Win+Shift+S to actually save screenshots?
In my fresh install of 24H2 the Win+Shift+S combination (same as plain PrtSc) just silently captures the selected area of the screen to the clipboard. No option to postprocess the captured shot (re: Windows 10) or save it to a file is offered. If I recall correctly, this is a "relatively recent" change in Windows 11 behavior. Older versions autosaved the file. I can, of course, manually directly paste the screenshot into the filesystem in File Explorer (under a weird autogenerated GUID-style name), but that takes a few extra steps I'd like to avoid.
Alt+PtrSc also works in this fashion: it captures the current window to the clipboard. Meanwhile, Win+PrtSc maintains the "classic" functionality - it captures the entire screen and right away saves it to a file into Pictures\Screenshots under autogenerated Screenshot (<number>).png name.
Is there a way to request Win+Shift+S functionality (and, preferably, all flavors of built-in screen captures) to just automatically save the file to Pictures\Screenshots?
P.S. A loosely related question: The Screenshot button in Edge autosaves the file but places it in Downloads. Is there a setting (internal, apparently) to change the location for screenshots made by the Screenshot button in Edge? That is without changing the general Downloads location.
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Although Win + Shift + S captures to the clipboard, you can open the Snipping Tool (by searching in the start menu) that offers more functionality, including saving directly to a file. You can also choose different snip types and have a little more control over your screenshots.
