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IMHO, in my decades-long experience as a Windows User & as a contract System Admin, Windows does suck because Microsoft sucks! That said, in my experience, Microsoft has designed ALL its software to fit the average user (however MS defines that). This makes ‘customizing’ Windows & other MS applications to one’s own preferences or needs rather difficult.
Websites like this one offer valuable & usable advice, ‘work-arounds’, or ‘How-to’ instructions to customize Windows to your requirements. The MS powers-that-be cared not to provide to the average user clear information nor instructions.
Thank goodness that technically savvy folks translated MS Developers information into ‘normal people’ language & published it on this & other Help web sites!
Historically, Microsoft didn’t make easy to use ‘Help’. If you had no Systems or Programming experience you only got simplistic non-helpful all-too-brief blurbs of info from the F1 key or Windows Warning & Error screens. In all fairness to the MS
personnel, the workers, many consumers don’t read any Instructions provided on anything if it turns on or opens on their first attempt! Perhaps I am too jaded from years spent attempting to fix User Malfunctions (as opposed to repairing hardware or software failures). -
This is why windows sucks. Make a simple thing complex. Make it hard to learn, hard to use, hard to find. Like windows computers can’t sleep, something wakes them. Can’t have consistency, because each new update will make something stop functioning properly.
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Uh, yeah. Just one problem. There IS NO “screenshots” folder under username/pictures. There is “camera roll”, and “saved pictures”. When I print screen, they do not show up in either folder. In fact, I have absolutely no idea where they are going…which is why I came to this article. But, no help here.
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Read our guide until the end. We also show how to restore the default location of the Windows 10 Screenshots folder.
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thanks for the explanation, but I have no screenshots folder in this pc-pictures-screenshots. I’ve looked everywhere and can’t find it, as well as done a search for ‘screenshots’ on my computer. I’m windows 10. Can you advise on how to create a folder that will cntr printscreen or snip will save to? Thx.
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Good
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There is no location tab in my screenshots folder. I moved it to my D drive (where I store photos) some time ago, and it appears that screenshots are no longer saved here. But I can’t find out where they are going. There is no screenshots folder in my C drive pictures folder. My onedrive also does not have anything in its screenshots folder.
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Hello, this page is informative! However, in my case, the screenshots are not saved in the Screenshots folder or in any folders. If I press windows key and prt sc, the screenshot is just copied to the clip board and not automatically saved in the folder. What should I do to save screenshots automatically?
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Absolutely no sign of the screenshots folder in the location suggested nor can it be found in a This PC search (except as an empty folder on onedrive). I am logged in as a User not Admin and on the latest 64bit version of W10. It was intially a W7 machine
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By mistake i chose “yes” in redirect popup.Now the screenshots are being saved dirctly on the desktop.
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There is no “Location” tab in my “Screenshot Properties” box, so this doesn’t help at all!
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Was very helpful. Thank u.
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No location tab is found in my screenshot folder when I move to some other location
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it doesn’t help you find the location if you dont have screenshots folder in pictures.
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Windows doesn’t look like that at all anymore, so no. Not helpful
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What do you mean? We are using Windows 10, which looks like in our screenshots.
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Unfortunately, I transferred (cut & paste) the “Screenshot” folder into my external hard disk. Now, I am not finding any screenshot folder. How can I create it again?
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Hi,
I did the same thing and been searching for a solution with ni avail, where you able to find one?
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Hi,
My screenshots folder is in the Dropbox, not in Image folder. I don’t know why.
Under properties, there isn’t any “location” so I can’t move it.
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I accidentally didn’t create a subfolder for my screenshots, so now, like your “Desktop” example, they are dumped into a huge folder with many things in it. I’ve attempted to restore the folder given the above process, to no avail. Any thoughts on how to proceed?
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Hi. I don’t have a screenshot folder on my PC and I do have Windows 8.
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OneDrive recently changed my PrtScn on my Windows10 to OneDrive. I just want my “clipboard” back. I see nothing that says “clipord” to replace this. I would appreciate your help. Using Memory is all I want and don’t need another folder. Thanks.
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Hello, I accidentally renamed my screenshot folder to downloads. Now I cannot rename it back to screenshots, and if I do, all files that have to be downloaded will go to screenshots. I also tried to redirect it to a screenshots folder in downloads but it says parent cant move into child error. Please help.
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How come I’m not seeing the Location tab in Screenshots Properties?
Thanks.
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Hi , I Change The Location to desktop but there is no folder , just pictures and now i want to Restore it but there isn’t screenshots folder . Can you help me to restore it ? ( windows 8.1 )
