How to take screen shot in pc

  

How to take screen shot in pc

Taking a screenshot isn’t a particularly exciting computing task, but it’s a very useful skill that everybody need to have to know. Screenshots can be useful in doing work, essential for record-keeping, or may even be requested by tech support to better illustrate a bug you’re experiencing.

But if you’re taking screenshots on a Windows PC, the first thing to know is that you’re not just stuck with one method for doing so. You haven’t  just the Print Screen key. Your other options include sending screenshots to OneDrive, getting them via Game bar, and others. Our preferred method uses the Paint program, but you can edit screenshots with nearly any first- or third-party tool.

Windows provides six methods to capture your desktop as an image. Three are based on the Print Screen (PrtScn) key while the remaining three require the Windows (Win) key.

On external keyboards, you’ll find a dedicated PrtScn key located in the upper-right corner. The Win key typically resides on the lower left between the Control (Ctrl) and Alternate (Alt) keys. It sports the Windows logo, so it’s hard to miss.

On laptops, the Print Screen command may be combined with another function on a single key, as shown above. In this case, you must press the Function (Fn) key in addition to the Print Screen key.

 

 

Here’s a breakdown of the six screen capture commands:

§  Print Screen (PrtScn) – Captures the entire screen. If you have more than one display, this function captures everything shown across all connected displays as a single image. By default, this method does not save your image as a file, but merely sends the captured image to the clipboard.

§  Alt + Print Screen – Captures a single window. Be sure to highlight the target window first, such as a document or browser, before pressing these two keys (or three on a laptop). By default, this method does not save your image as a file, but just sends the captured image to the clipboard.

§  Win + Print Screen – Captures the entire screen. The difference here is that Windows saves the image as a file. By default, it’s sent to C:Users<user name>Pictures>Screenshots on your PC.

§  Win + Shift + S – Capture a screenshot using the built-in Snip & Sketch tool. The screen dims and provides four choices on a small toolbar: Rectangular, Freeform, Window Snip, and Fullscreen Snip. This tool does not save captures as an image but merely sends them to the clipboard. We expand on this later in the guide.

§  Win + Alt + Print Screen – Captures the entire screen. This command saves an image to C:Users<user name>Videos>Captures by default.

§  Win + G – Opens the Game bar. Click the Capture button and then the camera icon and this tool will save an image to C:Users<user name>Videos>Captures by default.