Good news first: the switch at the heart of this fix is exactly the same on Windows 10 and Windows 11. What differs is everything around it - what the app is, how the Print Screen key behaves, and how you remove or restore the tool itself. A short page, because the honest summary is "less differs than you fear".
Admins supporting a mixed office - some Windows 10 machines hanging on, some Windows 11 desktops, a few Home-edition laptops - reasonably ask whether the video's method even applies to their fleet. It does, and this page separates the parts that are identical from the parts that genuinely changed between versions, so you can run one standard across both.
One switch, two neighbourhoods. Learn the value once and it serves on every Windows 10 and 11 machine you manage.
The policy value is the same on both versions: DisableSnippingTool, a DWORD under SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\TabletPC, where 1 blocks the tool and 0 - or no value at all - allows it. The video's script, the manual registry edit and the Group Policy setting all write this same value on Windows 10 and Windows 11 alike. If you document one standard for a mixed fleet, this value is the standard.
Windows 10 carried two overlapping tools for years: the classic Snipping Tool and its intended replacement, Snip & Sketch. Windows 11 merged everything into a single Snipping Tool app, which later gained screen recording as well. The policy still carries the older app's name - "Do not allow Snipping Tool to run" - because the setting dates from that era. Do not go hunting for a separate, modern Windows 11 policy; the old-named one is the intended switch on both systems.
On Windows 10, Print Screen quietly copies the screen to the clipboard and that is the end of it. On Windows 11, the same key can instead open the snipping interface - controlled by the toggle Use the Print screen button to open screen snipping under Settings > Accessibility > Keyboard. Whichever way the key is set, note the honest constant: the clipboard copy route exists on both versions, which is one reason disabling the app alone never equals blocking screenshots - the honest-limits page on this site lists every route that stays open.
The policy block is usually the better tool, but if you ever deal with the app package directly, the doors differ. On Windows 10, the Snipping Tool is managed through Settings > Apps > Optional features. On Windows 11, it is a Microsoft Store app - uninstall and reinstall happen through the Store like any other app. One caution that applies to both: removing the app is a bigger hammer than the policy, and feature updates have a habit of bringing bundled apps back, while a policy value simply keeps working across updates.
The difference that actually decides your method is not 10 versus 11 - it is the edition. Home has no Group Policy Editor on either version, so Home machines take the script or registry route. Pro, Enterprise and Education have gpedit on both, and domain machines of either version take the GPO. A typical mixed office therefore runs two delivery routes - policy where available, script where not - toward one identical result.
DisableSnippingTool = 1 on every managed PC" - then deliver it by GPO to domain Pro machines and by the video's script to the rest. And on both versions alike, keep the promise honest: this blocks one app, on 10 and 11 equally, while Print Screen and phone cameras stay open on both.The video demos the script on Windows 11 - the same file's logic applies to your Windows 10 machines too.
▶️ Watch Full VideoPolicy values under the Policies keys normally carry over with an in-place upgrade, and the same policy exists in Windows 11. Verify once after the upgrade - it takes ten seconds in Registry Editor.
Recording lives inside the same Snipping Tool app, so blocking the app covers its recording entry point too. If a particular build still opens the app, work through the troubleshooting checks - the placement causes listed there explain most cases.
The script from the video or the manual registry value - both write the same switch on Windows 10 and 11. Group Policy only earns its keep when you manage many PCs.