Screen Captures

Taking and Saving Screen Captures

There are various methods as follows:

• Using the Windows Snipping Tool
  • You can create a shortcut to this program as follows:
    1. Open the Start menu, click All Apps and scroll down to Windows Accessories and open the menu
    2. Right-click the Snipping Tool and choose More, Open file location and click Properties
    3. Right-click the Snipping Tool program
    4. Select the Shortcut tab and click in the Shortcut key box
    5. Press any key combination to select your shortcut. In the picture below I selected Shift+F5

• Using a program such as SnagIt
  • SnagIt has a setting that lets you choose the default hot key. It’s usually Printscreen. You may have to open its preferences to select this.
• Use a free program such as Jing available here or Greenshot available here. From reading about them Jing looks much better.
• Pressing Winkey + Printscreen captures the entire screen and places a copy on the Clipboard and in your user profile under Pictures, Screenshots.
  • If you have dual monitors and will capture both screens. SnagIt and the Snipping Tool can do this also.
• You can take screen shots without any installed program as follows:
  • Pressing the Printscreen button will copy an picture of the Desktop to the Windows Clipboard
  • Using Alt+Printscreen will copy an picture of the active window only to the Windows Clipboard
• To make it more interesting both Dropbox and OneDrive have options to save the screenshots to their folders
  • This only works if you do not have any screen capture running on your PC – but – you can only enables this in one of the programs only
  • For OneDrive, right-click the icon in the lower right, click Settings and go to the Auto save tab. The setting is at the bottom
  • For Dropbox, right-click the icon and click the gear in the upper right. Go to the import tab and choose your settings.
  • See the video below

Note: If you do not see the OneDrive or Dropbox icons, click the Up Arrow to expose all of the icons as shown below.

Final notes:

To test your Printscreen method, perform a screen capture, Open the Paint Program and click the Paste icon.
For a free Clipboard Manager try the ArsClip program from here. Look for the link as shown below.