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Win + Shift + S allows you to select a rectangular region and copy the image data to clipboard.

Yes. This changed my life. I use it every day.

I mean, win+shift+s (the default snipping tool hotkey) to grab a snip is pretty elegant IMO. Copies it straight to the clipboard, or lets you save (& edit) it from the notification. Probably one of my most used shortcuts.

Indeed, on Mac I normally end up swapping the cmd-shift-4 (screenshots to file, can open in preview instead) with cmd-shift-option-4 (screenshots to clipboard) as the latter is basically what I always want.

Printscreen to capture the whole screen. Alt + Printscreen to capture the current active window.

Win + Shift + S has been there for ages now.

what ages exactly? (I don't use windows now but need to know)

At least since 2017 I wanna say.

Have you ever used Windows?