SOLVED: Windows 10 OneDrive hijacks PrintScreen hotkey.

[Deozaan]

I noticed for the past month or two that ScreenshotCaptor no longer would work when I pressed PrintScreen. Instead, I'd get a notification that my screenshot was saved to my OneDrive. No matter how I configured ScreenshotCaptor, I couldn't get it to take a screenshot using PrintScreen as a hotkey.

Weird.


After finally mentioning the problem to mouser today, he quickly found a link with some suggestions that led to a solution. The solution is pretty simple: Right-click the OneDrive icon in your tray, select Settings, click on the "Auto save" tab, and uncheck the "Automatically save screenshots I capture to OneDrive." Click the OK button and then close/restart OneDrive.

SOLVED: Windows 10 OneDrive hijacks PrintScreen hotkey.

That last step of shutting down OneDrive is imperative. It's not enough to just disable the setting. OneDrive must be shut down completely and optionally restarted if you want OneDrive to do its OneDrive stuff.

If restarting OneDrive doesn't do it for you, then I have read that a reboot will do the trick.

[wraith808]

You don't have to do that.  Just restart SCC after saying no to capture all of my screens to OneDrive when it first asks you, and it registers again.  I was going to post something about it... fuming at the time  .  But once I figured out that restarting SCC worked, I felt stupid, so didn't. 

[mouser]

Thanks for sharing this -- I'll bet there are others who are wondering why PrtScr key stopped working 

[mwb1100]

It's practically criminal that Windows doesn't/can't provide some sort of central, OS supported management of hotkeys.  Sometimes it's nearly impossible (or actually impossible) to figure out why a key isn't doing what you expect when it has been hijacked by some application.

[anandcoral]

It's practically criminal that Windows doesn't/can't provide some sort of central, OS supported management of hotkeys.  Sometimes it's nearly impossible (or actually impossible) to figure out why a key isn't doing what you expect when it has been hijacked by some application.

-mwb1100 (December 08, 2015, 11:59 PM)

ActiveHotkeys  by tranglos may help, to find out about the hotkeys.
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=18189.0

Regards,

Anand

[clg]

Hello - I know this is an old topic (saw a relevant thread about the issue from 2015) but it didn't quite solve my problem completely:

What I'd like to have, if possible, is two ** different ** hotkeys/hotkey combos/keyboard shortcuts, one for Screenshot Captor and another for OneDrive. Reason being is that sometimes I need the quick convenience of OneDrive auto-uploading a screenshot to a static (meaning easy to find) folder, other times I need the power and rich configuration options of Screenshot Captor.

As a workaround to take OneDrive out of the picture (in a way that makes sense to me), I suppose I could turn off Autosave in OneDrive, and in Screenshot Captor specify the default save path as \\onedrive\pictures\screenshots. That's not terribly elegant though, so is there a better solution I haven't though of?

Thanks!

[mouser]

You can set whatever hotkeys you want for Screenshot Captor; I'm not sure about OneDrive.

[IainB]

@clg:

...Reason being is that sometimes I need the quick convenience of OneDrive auto-uploading a screenshot to a static (meaning easy to find) folder, other times I need the power and rich configuration options of Screenshot Captor. ...

-clg (December 14, 2017, 03:01 AM)

Interesting. This requirement is much like mine. I arrived at an approach where I got to some kind of image management nirvana, where:

• I know where any screenshot captures and duplicates of same will have gone to.
• The "static folder" is in the CHS database images folder, which holds the image .png files saved.

The approach I have taken took me a while to figure out, but it had been staring me in the face for some time before the penny finally dropped. It has probably already saved me a lot of time and is described here for anyone who might want to try out the same approach:
Re: Modify your screen capture/management tools for optimum efficiency of use.

The description might seem to be a bit complex to follow initially - e.g., (say) if one is not used to systems/process analysis - but the proof of the pudding will be in the eating. It is actually quite simple in concept and simple to set up, and, once set up, requires no further work, other than periodically updating the 3 softwares used and housekeeping the image storage folders.

Hope it helps or is of use.

[clg]

Thanks folks, I looked at both your posts. I don't do a ton of screenshots, so KISS for me. Just reassigned the PrntScr button in SSC. Duh...

[IainB]

@clg: Well, that was easy!