The easiest way to access it is to open your Action Center and click the Screen snip button. Using the Windows 10 Snip and Sketch ToolĪnother useful tool that’s built into more recent versions of Windows 10 is the Snip and Sketch Tool. Click on the Backup tab, then check the “Automatically save screenshots I capture to OneDrive” option.

To do so, right-click on the OneDrive icon in your system tray in the right-hand side of the taskbar on your primary display and select Settings. You’ll be asked if you want to turn this feature on the first time you hit the PrtScn button, but if you miss that notification or want to change the option in the future then you can access the setting in the OneDrive app. If you have Microsoft’s OneDrive cloud storage service installed on your PC, then you can configure your system to automatically save screenshots captured using the PrtScn key to the Pictures > Screenshots folder in your OneDrive repository. To capture just the active window, use the Alt + PrtScn combination. Note that if you have multiple monitors, then using the Print Screen function will capture the screens on all of them as a single image. Simply open up Windows Explorer and navigate to this folder to access all of your screenshots, which will be simply named with the date stamp and a numerical counter if there are multiple images captured on the same day. If you use the Windows Logo + PrtScn combination, then your screenshot will be saved in your local Pictures > Screenshots folder. If your keyboard doesn’t have a PrtScn button, then you can hit Fn + Windows Logo + Space Bar. On some keyboards, you’ll need to hit the Windows Logo key along with PrtScn to capture the screen. Perhaps more useful, you can paste the image into the Windows 10 Paint app, do some light editing, and then save the image wherever you want. Hit that key and your entire screen is copied to the Windows 10 clipboard, and from there it can be pasted into whatever image editing or other application you desire.įor example, you can hit the PrtScn button and then paste the image into Microsoft Word.

Probably the easiest way to capture your display is to use the Print Screen feature, which is accessed via the PrtScn key on most Windows PC keyboards. Regardless of why you need to capture your screen we’ve created a quick guide on how to use Windows 10’s built-in screen capture tools.

The uses can vary, from developing training sessions to simply easily sharing information. Sometimes, you need to grab a screenshot of your entire display, a single window, or just a portion of what you’re working on.

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