 Hello everyone, this is Amit Dan of AmitDan.com. Today I will have another episode of tutorial video and I will talk about how to take screenshots on your Windows computer or laptop. If this is the first time I repeat visit, thank you for your support on this channel. I am always trying new and different ideas. If that is something you are interested in, please visit for more. If you are only interested in tutorial videos, there will be links in the description box below. So there are a few ways you can take screenshots on Windows and I am going to go over most of them today and I have some notes which I will show you shortly. So there are several ways you can take screenshots on Windows and I will try to be simple and brief so you don't get confused or it doesn't seem to be difficult. It's fairly simple and I will just give you all the details you need to know. So I am just going to open up my notes and this is just to help you and I am going to put the same notes in the description box below. So before even you start taking screenshots, you need to do a few things and then that is what I am going to show you the first thing. So the first thing you need to do, you have to have your clipboard on your computer ready and you can open your clipboard just by clicking here which is the search box or the magnifier icon. So you click on here and type for clipboard. So CLIP. So even you don't have to type the clipboard, just type clip and you are going to see that clipboard settings is the match. So if you click on here, then this is going to take you to the clipboard screen and the first thing you are going to be doing is turning this on. So I already have it on because you know I turned it on before but if yours is off, so turn it on and another thing you need to know that you are going to be using Windows logo key and V sign or you have to press Windows logo key and V together to view your clipboard history and paste from it. So you are going to be using this command which is Windows plus V. So just remember that for later. So that is the first thing you need to do. Then the second thing you are going to be doing is that you need to know how to access your files explorer or your files. You can do it several way. The first way you can just click on here. This icon right here which looks like a folder. So if you click on it and it is going to open up this page which is your file explorer and you can also open a file explorer another way which is to go to the search button and type F-I-L-E and then you can see that you have the file explorer match. So if you click on it, then you are at the same page and now here you are going to click on pictures which is right here this PC. So click on it and then here you are going to see a folder for screenshots. So if you click on it it is right now empty but when we have our screenshots that is where you are going to be finding them. So I just wanted to show you ahead and then another thing you are going to be doing is that you need to know or you need to have an image editor which is we are going to be using Microsoft Paint and in order to open this all you have to do is just go to the search box again or the magnifier icon and search for paint. So if you just search for paint you are going to see a match and then just click on it and then this is going to open an image editor which is the Microsoft image editor is called Microsoft Paint. You can use other image editor. I haven't tried that on Microsoft computers but I have a feeling I believe it is going to any image editor is going to work but most people use just the default editor which is the Microsoft Paint and that is what I am going to be talking about today. So the first way you can do a screenshot is you know there is a button on your computer or on your keyboard which is going to be on the upper right side. Usually it is on the top of the number signs and sometimes it comes like PRTSCN or UCP Print SCR. It could be something else but usually these are the most common you know name on that button. So you have to press that button and what happens that when you press it is going to print the entire screen not just like you know any partial screen or anything. It is going to print the entire screen and we are going to do it very shortly and sometimes just to note that you know your keyboard may have that this button print screen attached to a function button. So in that case you have to you know press function and that button together if it says that you know it is highlighted on that button or sometimes it can be a stand alone button what it means that you know you just have to press that button or on some keyboards it comes with a function button. So that way you have to press the function and that button together. So I am going to minimize this and let us say we are going to you know print this whole screen. So I am going to print the screen button on my keyboard and on my keyboard actually it comes with a function button. So I am going to have to press them simultaneously. So function and print screen. Now what happened you cannot see anything on the monitor but it already captured the whole screen the entire screen. So you are going to see that in the clipboard. So clipboard is kind of a bank where it is like you know depositing your temporary screen prints. So I am going to press Windows and V and this is going to bring up our clipboard. So Windows and V and you can see that you know we have the clipboard and it shows here that the entire screen we just you know took a screenshot of but in order to use this we need to open the you know paint or Microsoft paint or image editor. So we are going to bring up our Microsoft paint. So if you click on here and then what you are going to do we are going to press on Windows and V to bring up the clipboard and then if you click here then you can see that you know it pasted the clipboard or the screenshot from the clipboard on the Microsoft paint image editor and from here you can just like you know take whichever part you want and you can like you know crop it or you can just like you know make some changes. So that's how that's one way to do a screenshot or print screen on your computer. The second way you can do a print screen or screenshot is to press the Windows key and the print screen. So the difference between number one and number two is that with number two it saves automatically. You don't have to actually copy from clipboard and still it's doing the entire screen. It's not like an partial screen but you can just like you know get your file going to the folder which I showed you before. So in order to do that so what you have to do is you have to press Windows logo and the print screen key. So actually here let me just put Windows. Okay so let's do the print screen of the whole screen. So we're going to press you know Windows and then. Okay so you saw that the screen was dim for a second. What it means that it works and now you know you should have a screen shot or screen print in the folder which I showed you before. So it's going to be the screenshots inside the pictures folder under this PC and if you just click on it it's going to open it. So you can see that you know you have the full screen shot here and then you can just like you know crop it or you can you know take parts from it. You also need an editor either Microsoft Paint or the photo right now which it opens. So you can just like you know edit and make changes from here. So it's the same like the other one but the difference is that you know it's just saving you directly without going through the hassle of copying from the clipboard. So this is our option 2. So now let's move on to option 3. The third way to take a screenshot or you know Windows screenshot would be to print the alt and print the screen button. So the difference between number 3 and number 1 and number 2 that here you're just screenshotting the active window not the whole screen. So what I mean by active window that you know if you click on this inside this screen and you can see that kind of is kind of highlighted here and these are not highlighted anymore. So that means right now this is the active window but if you click inside this page then you can see that you know this is the main window and this is kind of in the background. So this is now the active window but not this one. So your active window is the main window you're working at that moment or where you have your cursor clicked on it and that's the active window. So for example this is our active window. Okay so number 3 only would screenshot the active window and then you know this is going to be again you have to use the clipboard it's not going to save automatically like number 2. So you have to just use the clipboard and then you have to open again Microsoft Paint or an image editing tool to work on your screenshot. So for example let's make this window active window and then we're going to click on alt and print a screen button. So the alt button is going to be kind of like you know on the left of your space button on the keyboard and the same printed screen button. So let's do alt and print screen. Now we should have this window only on a clipboard. So let's open the clipboard and see if it works and you can see that you know it worked here which is the active window. Now I'm going to open the Microsoft Paint image editor and let's open the clipboard again. So if I click on it on here this should transfer the image to the Microsoft Paint. So click on it and you can see that you know I have the active window right here. So right now I'm just going to you know work on this one. So you can just like you know copy or you can save it or you can just like you know cut part part of it or you can just like you know crop it. So that's how you can do a screenshot by using the number third option which is the alt plus print screen and this is only for active window and still you have to use the clipboard and you have to save on your own. It doesn't get saved automatically like number two. So that's number this is number three. Now let's move on to number four. The number four we can use the snipping tool to take windows screenshot. So this is a very old tool and windows keeps telling that you know this is not going to be available in the future but they have been telling it for a few years or for long but it still doesn't go away. So I have a feeling that you know they are going to keep it and I heard that even windows 11 has this option. What they did the snipping tool is not going to be in the app list windows list of apps anymore. So you can access it access that by going to the you know search bar which is the same like I showed you before. So click on the magnify button and type for snip and you're going to see the snipping tool and if you click on it then you're going to see this message that snipping tool is moving and this is what I was telling just now that you know they have been telling that this is going to go away for many years but it still stays. So now if you have this small window then you're going to see two options one is new and another one is mode. If you click on the mode button then you're going to see a few options and you have like you know free form snip rectangular snip, window snip, full-screen snip. Now when you have like you know this selection is here window snip then it's going to snip the whole window like the way just we did before when you click on new but let's say if I click on free form snip now you can see that I have kind of a scissor and you can actually kind of like you know draw something or cut something that let's say like you know I want to cut this portion or I want to screenshot this now you know I'm just moving it with the scissor by holding the left mouse button and if I release that then you can see that you know it's just giving you the screenshot of what you're cutting by moving the scissor. So that's how it works then if you go back to rectangular and then if you click new then here it's just going to give you the rectangular size and then if you just like you know hit no and if you open up the snip, sniping tool again then the other option you can see here that full-screen snip and full-screen snip is you know the entire screen and window snip is going to be the active window so basically that's how we can use this. Now the sniping tool also saves like you know one copy in the clipboard or you have to just save like you know manually because you have the file already so for example if I do full-screen snip and then you have to go to the file and save from here so it doesn't get saved automatically so you have to save on your own so that is just something to remember. Now let's move on to the last one. So the fifth option is snip and sketch and this is the final option and this is what you know Windows is trying to everyone to use because this is the newer version of the sniping tool app and you can access it several ways for example you can use the command button which is windows plus shift plus s and then you can find this in the alphabetical list of apps on your computer like you know if you open up here then you're going to find it here like you know if you go up to for the s and then you can find it in the notification panel which is right here so if you click on here and this is going to be under screen snip right here and then you can find it also by doing the search in the search button so you just click s and ip then you can see that you know you're getting the sniping tool the first but the second one is snip and sketch so you can find it several ways and let's click on the notification button and then you're going to click on snip tool and then here you have the sniping tool now you can see that you see these four options on top of the screen and these are basically the same options we had before in the snipping tool for example the rectangular snip the freeform slip snip where you can like you know cut or select which you want to snip and then this is the window snip which is like you know the active window and then here this is the full screen snip so it works the same way like the snipping tool from here so let's say if you choose the window snip and if you just you know click here and then it's going to you know save the window in the clipboard so let's open the clipboard and you can see that we have these in the clipboard and I'm going to open the Microsoft Paint actually I'm sorry I'm going to open the screenshot folder just to show you that it's not saving to the screenshot folder so what do you have to do we have to open the Microsoft Paint again and then you just need to you know go to the clipboard and then you can just transfer here and then you can just work from here so it looks like it doesn't save give you the option or open the you know file directly like the snipping tool so you have to just go through this extra step to you know work on the Microsoft Paint then save it so I'm going to just you know open the clipboard again and if I click on it and you just pasting it on the Word document so yeah it doesn't open up as a separate image or JPEG like the way we had it with the snipping tool so basically these are the ways you can take screenshots on Microsoft Windows computers or laptops so I'm going to put in these I'll put this in the description box below for your convenience and you can just like you know use whichever you like it's very easy to do and I you know made it very clear here that which one is for what so you can just you know keep an eye to check which one you need to do or you can just like you know revisit the video whenever you need to take a Windows screen print or screenshot and you forgot how to do it so that's all for today thank you for watching this video there will be more videos coming up so I'll see you shortly thank you