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it would seem taking screenshots in windows is simple there's a button dedicated to this on almost every keyboard called the Print Screen key pressing this key captures the entire screen or multiple screens if you have more than one monitor and it copies it to the clipboard while this method works it's the old-school way it requires you to pace the screen capture into paint just to save it fortunately there are easier and faster ways to grab your screen and windows here's how a new screen capture hotkey combination was introduced with Windows 10 holding the Windows key and pressing the Print Screen button will instantly save a screenshot as an image you can find these screen captures under this PC slash pictures / screenshots the problem is this still captures the entire display including a second screen if you have one if you want to capture just a single open window without everything else hold alt while pressing the Print Screen button this captures just the current active window sadly with this hotkey you will still need to paste the capture into paint to save it but of course there's a workaround if you use Microsoft's onedrive which comes pre-installed you can opt to have all screen captures saved to your cloud storage automatically and onedrive you can find this under settings autosave and then check the box beside automatically save screenshots I capture to onedrive you can find all screen captures under onedrive slash pictures / screenshots Dropbox for windows also has a similar feature if you prefer it instead windows also comes with a fairly robust screen capture tool installed it's called the snipping tool and it's your best bet if you need more precise screen captures click the start button start typing snipping tool and click on the app to open it with snipping tool you can capture an active window entire screens precise rectangles or use a free-form select tool you can capture screenshots on a delay and annotate them within the snipping tool as well just click save when you're finished to export the capture for other Windows tips and tricks and other how to's be sure to check out see Netcom forward slash how to you