How to take a screenshot of your computer on Windows

There are many ways to take a screenshot of your computer, from using tools available in Windows or using screen capture software.

There are many ways to take screenshots of your computer, from using tools available in Windows or using screen capture software with quicker and easier operations.

Take screenshots on Windows XP

Just press the Print Screen key to take a screenshot of the full screen, or Alt + Print Screen to take a screenshot of the current window.

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It will not output to the image file directly but will be saved in the Clipboard , you must use an image processing software to paste out and save. Here, I use the Paint tool available in Windows.

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Just open Paint and press Ctrl + V to paste. Then File> Save or Ctrl + S to save.

Take screenshots with Windows 7 and 8, 8.1, 10

If you use Windows 7 / 8x or higher, you can follow the same method of Windows XP as above, that is, use the Print Screen Key to capture and open Paint or Photoshop, . to Paste in and then save.

However, from Windows 7 onwards you have a tool called Snipping Tool available in Windows. Just press Start and type the Snipping tool into the search box to find it. Or on Win 8, 8.1 you hover on the right corner of the screen, select Open Search in the Chambar bar and also search for the Snipping Tool.

This software has 4 options for taking screenshots:

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Free-form Snip : Capture the screen in any shape you draw
Rectangular snip : Take screenshots in any rectangular frame
Window Snip : Screen capture is working
Full-screen Snip: Capture full screen

By default, when you click New , you drag a rectangle and the area is captured.

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Finally press Ctrl + S to save.

ScreenShoter - Screen capture software

If you need software to take screenshots faster and more professionally, you can use ScreenShoter . The advantage of it is that it is quite easy to manipulate and export images directly , so it does not need many steps to have a screen image file.

Download here : http://www.inspire-soft.net/data/screenshoter.zip

The software is very compact and requires no installation, so just unzip and run the exe file.

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Part Region you will choose to take full screen , window capture or capture an arbitrary area .

Filename is a place to choose a numbering (date and time) or ask every time (ask every time)

The Destination is where the image file will be exported.

Click Screenshot and you will get the screen image file like that.

If you want to select an area to capture, click the button as shown below:

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Then select the area you want to capture and right-click to confirm, then click Screenshot .

By default, the software will save JPG images, if you want to save with PNG or BMP image formats, go to Settings> Saving> Image Format and convert again. Or Settings> Image quality (JPG) if you want to adjust the quality of JPG images.

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