Thank you for this information,it helped me a lot!!????

none of these are helpful what is prtc

I like the snipping tool the most. No need to paste into paint and then cut out the part you need. Just use snip to get the relevant part only

I want to take a screen shot on my PC Desktop (Windows 7) . I have a wireless keyboard with NO PRINT SCREEN button. Every instruction I can find includes a Print Screen button or keyboard shortcuts for Windows 10 only.
Is my Print Screen button disguised as something else – like one of the F buttons?

This article was extremely useful. Very much appreciated, thanks.

I’ve been using Windows 10 with all updates current. At some recent point, the Win+Shift+S quit working. I only get a full gray screen. I used to get that if I had a tab open to something with sensitive data like my bank. If I closed such a tab, then it worked again. Now it never works. Snipping tool also used to work, but now also gives full gray screen. I can do a Fn+PrintScr and get the whole laptop screen, but really need something where I can select a portion of the screen. Any further ideas that you have tested? THANKS!!!

thank you for this information.

this article was actually really helpful

Thanks for your tutorials on how to capture screen shots. they are indeed wonderful and real. I have practiced them and they yielded result.
Thanks once more.

THANK YOU for such good information. Nothing was working on my computer till I kept reading and found the Fn+Windows+PrtScn that worked! I really appreciate it. None of the other websites above yours on the list covered it in such detail!! You saved my job application. 🙂

I just wanted to save a few recipes from an online magazine with no printing option and the Windows + prt sc works for me but sadly I can not zoom in on the screenshot to read the instructions clearly. The magazine needs to be zoomed in on but then I end up with partial page. So annoying. Mostly commenting to say that the methods above work on Windows 10 for me. It did indeed save to a folder called screenshots in my pictures folder. fn + prt sc also works for copying to clipboard but I dislike having to paste into something else to save. Thank you for the tips.

I am non technical. I tried all of the different combinations and non of them work. What could be wrong? I have a keyboard with CTR FN and ALT to left of space bar and ,ALT GR, and windows key to right of space bar. I also have PRT SCR over SUS RQ button above the = button. Can you help?

Awesome Documentation on Screen Captures

None of the 8 ways worked on my Toshiba Satellite with Windows 10.
🙁

I was thrilled when I read the shortcut “Win+Shift+S” would let me select an area of the screen to screenshot, similar to the “Cmd+Shift+4” behavior on OSX; OSX has always had the best screenshotting capabilities and it’s always been something Windows was missing.

Unfortunately, it simply does not work. I’m on Windows 10 (NOT Home), I have all the updates, but it’s just not a valid shortcut. Win+S brings up Cortana search, and Shift+Win+S does, as far as I can tell, simply nothing.

From what I’ve read the only method to select a specific area is using the “Snippet Tool”. Unfortunately, happen to open another application EVERY TIME I want to screenshot something just doesn’t work for me. The thing that makes the OSX shortcuts great is they just “work”. CMD+Shift+3 takes a screenshot of the entire page, and if you swap 3 for 4 it immediately gives you a selection cursor, and you select a specific area to capture. Either way, the screenshot is saved on your Desktop as “Screenshot [TIMESTAMP].png”. You can even change the default file name; mine, for instance, is “Nino’s Screengrab [Timestmap].png”. It’s amazing, and you can do it anywhere no matter what. Having to stop, open another program, take the screenshot, move it to where you want it, and close the program is just totally redundant.

Was the Win+Shift+S key WORKING for you at some point while writing this, in Windows 10? Did you have the Snippet Tool open when you did it? Perhaps it’s an application shortcut that works with that tool open? I’ve also read in a few places that it may be a “OneNote” shortcut, did you have that open (or even just the icon in your taskbar) at the time?

I’m assuming you didn’t just blindly post that screenshot without verifying it, and if it did work for you I would really like to understand the conditions that allowed it to. If you did have the Snippet Tool (or perhaps even OneNote) open, then that’s probably it… but if you’re sure that’s not the case, please let me know how I can duplicate this behavior.

If you could legitimately find a way, NATIVELY, to take a selected-area screenshot in Windows 10 without needing to open Snippet Tool or install other third party software, that alone would warrant its own article; you would be a hero to many Win10 users, especially developers who are constantly sending screenshots to show work samples without revealing source, and we’d all be eternally grateful. So yeah, figure out what you did to make it work and let us know!

I tried all of the print screen tip and none of them work. So I have to resort to the “snip” tool. I have windows 8, so I don’t know what the issue is.

I have tried every single method advised to take a screenshot on my computer and, either it won’t do it or it isn’t saving automatically as it should. Any advice?

How I missed this tutorial?
Missed a couple of this triks

Thanks

Thank you very much for great teaching…
Everyone will be benefited from this lesson.

My PrtSc key is no longer working. I used to just press it and it would automatically take an image and all of a sudden it has stopped working.
Any idea on how to fix this?

lenovo yoga pro 2
windows 8.1

Cheers!