How To Take A Screenshot

The print screen key is most often found in the upper right side of the main keyboard not counting the number pad if your keyboard has one and it usually has sysreq system requirements written below it.

How to take a screenshot. To capture an image of your entire display and save it to a file on the desktop press shift 3. Click the screenshot button and this tool saves an image to c users user name videos captures by default. Quickly release both buttons. To use this tool make sure the game bar s screen capture.

Step 1 go to the screen that you want to screenshot. The computer will make the sound of a camera shutter and a file labeled screen shot date will appear on your desktop. Your mac captures the entire screen and saves it as a file on the desktop. In windows 10 type snipping tool in the search box on the taskbar and select the snipping tool from the list of results.

A screenshot of your currently active window will be copied to the clipboard just as in the last section. On some notebooks you have to hold fn and then press prtscn instead. If you re on a digital inking capable touch screen pc like a surface pro you can take a screenshot of your full screen simply by double clicking on the back button on a surface pen. This will snap your currently active window and copy the screenshot to the clipboard.

Alt print screen to take a quick screenshot of the active window use the keyboard shortcut alt prtscn. Press alt prtscn. Before you can take a screenshot you must make sure that the screen which you want to screenshot is up with no distractions e g open windows or programs step 2 find the print screen key on your keyboard. Windows captures the entire screen and copies it to the invisible clipboard.

Take a screenshot on pc with the windows snipping tool another way to take screenshots is to use the windows snipping tool. Win g opens the game bar. After you take a screenshot a thumbnail temporarily appears in the lower left corner of your screen. To take a screenshot of only one window click on the title bar of the window that you want to capture.

Take a full screen screenshot.