How To Take Screenshot In Windows 10,8 And 7

There are several ways to capture screenshots in windows and in this article we have told you about How To Take Screenshot In Windows 10,8 And 7

Taking Screenshots Using Shortcuts :

The best and the common way to Take Screenshot In Windows 10,8 And 7 or no matter what window you use is to use shortcut keys. On the keyboard, the Print Screen key is used as a shortcut method. It captures the entire screen and copies the screenshot to the system clipboard. 

Print screen key is used by pressing PrtSc key 

To paste the copied screenshot can be pasted to any file using Ctrl+V.

*Win+PrtSc is used to capture the full screen and saves it automatically in Pictures or any folder.

*Alt+PrtSc is used to capture only the active screen instead of the full screen.

*To capture alternate screen Win+PrtSc or Win+fn+PrtSc is used.

*To capture partial screen Win+Shift+S.

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Taking a Screenshot Using the Snipping Tool:

Windows provide a special build-in screen capturing tool called the snip tool. It is an advance method of screen capturing and editing.  In Snipping Tool, you can also use the pen and Highlight tool to decorate your screenshot.

*Go to Start and the search snipping then select Snipping Tool from the results.

*After capturing screenshot select File and Save using Save As or using Ctrl+S.

The snipping tool provides various options to capture a screenshot such as Free-form Snip (freehand area capture), Rectangular Snip (rectangular area capture), Window Snip (entire window), Full screen Snip (capture the full screen).

Other Methods of Capturing Screenshots:

Using Third party applications

1. Game Bar: to enable it press Windows+G.
2. Ink workspace 
3. Snip and Sketch etc.

Screenshots are very important. Above are few easy and quick methods to capture screen. I hope you find my article helpful.