A ‘screenshot’, as you may know, is a picture of what you see on your screen. It’s useful to take a screenshot for your own reference in some situations (a confirmation web page shown after you buy something online, for instance) or to send to someone by email when seeking help with a problem on your PC. Another reason for taking a screenshot is if you see a wonderful picture which you want to save for future use for use as a Wallpaper or article illustration.
In Windows 8 there are two ways of taking screenshots. The first is the way that’s common to all versions of Windows:
•To take a screenshot of the whole screen, press the Print Screen key (sometimes abbreviated to Prt Scn; it’s usually just above the block of Home/End/Page keys). To take a screenshot of just the window you’re currently using, press Alt+Print Screen.
The screenshot is now stored on the Windows Clipboard. From here, you can paste it into a Word document or a picture-editing program by pressing Ctrl+V and then save the document or picture.
The alternative method, which is new in Windows 8, is to press Win+Print Screen. (Win refers to the Windows key which appears on all modern keyboards). This takes a screenshot of your whole screen, but it doesn't leave you to muck around with pasting it somewhere: instead it saves it as a picture file on your hard disk. Press Win+E to open File Explorer, go into your Pictures library and you’ll find a folder named Screenshots. Open this folder, and you’ll find the screenshot you’ve just created.
Cool eh?
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