How to Change Where Windows Screenshots Are Saved

This updated guide explains how to change where Windows screenshots are saved with clear steps, practical tips, and useful context. By default, Windows saves screenshots in a folder that is quite difficult to find, so You need to perform many operations to find screenshots on your computer.

• Find the Screenshots folder, right-choose and select Properties
• choose the Location tab to change the folder location.
• choose Move to change and select a new folder to save the screenshot.
• choose Apply to save changes

How to Change Windows Screenshot Saving Location

Step 1:

Open File Explorer on your computer and navigate to the folder where the screenshots are saved by heading This PC > Pictures > Screenshots.

Step 2:

Right-select the Screenshots folder, select Properties in the displayed list. If on Windows 11, choose Show more options.

To display the new folder, the user clicks on the Location tab .

Step 3:

Then we choose the Move button to move the screenshot folder to another location.

Now the folder interface is displayed for us to select the new location to save the Windows screenshot folder, choose Select Folder to apply the changes.

Step 4:

Continue to choose Apply to save the new changes. The system will then ask you to move all screenshots to the new folder. To move all screenshots to the new folder, choose Yes .

In case you want to restore to the old position, choose Restore to do so.