What program is triggered/run when the PrintScreen button is pressed?

Question

What program is triggered to take a shot of the screen when the PrintScreen button is pressed on Windows?

Thanks

Answer 1

This is set to whatever screen capture program you have set as the default.

For example, I use greenshot at work, so when I press PrintScreen that application is used by default.

So the answer is, it depends but by default. Windows has it's own screen capture tool which is saved to a clipboard ready to be copied and pasted into an graphics utilities application. (eg. MS Paint, Photoshop, Corel Painter etc..).