If you don’t press the buttons simultaneously, you might turn off the display instead of taking a screenshot. Press and hold the “ volume up” and “ power” keys simultaneously to take a screenshot on these tablets.
If you want to take a screenshot on a Windows tablet without attaching an external keyboard, here is how to do so: To use the screenshot methods mentioned above on Windows tablets, you need to attach a physical external keyboard to them. Taking a screenshot on Windows tabletsĮven though they run on Windows, Windows tablets do not have the Print Screen key on their onscreen keyboards. The screenshot will also be saved to the “Captures” folder. Alternatively, you could view the images by clicking on “See all my captures” right below the camera icon.Ī keyboard shortcut alternative for taking a screenshot on windows using the Xbox game bar is “ Windows+Alt+Prt Sc.” The Xbox Game bar will take a screenshot immediately without launching the game bar. The screenshots you take using the game bar will be fullscreen, and they are automatically saved to the “Captures” subfolder in your “Videos” folder. If done right, a notification will pop up that says, “Screenshot saved.” To capture screenshots using the game bar, click on the camera icon in the toolbar at the top left corner of your computer screen. Simply press your windows key, search for “Xbox Game bar,” and open it. Then you can paste the screenshot to an image editing app. There is an alternative to pressing the print screen button alone: “Alt + PrtSc keys.” Pressing the Alt + PrtSc keys saves a picture of your currently active window (not the entire screen) to the clipboard. To save, simultaneously press the “Ctrl” and “S” (Ctrl+S) keys on your keyboard and save to any folder. Once the picture loads, you can save the screenshot to any folder. To paste the screenshot on the paint app, right-click and select “Paste.” You can also use a keyboard shortcut by simultaneously pressing the “Ctrl” and “V” (Ctrl+V) keys. Microsoft Paint is an image editing app.Ĭlick on the Windows key, and search for “paint.” The Paint app will come up, and you can then proceed to open the app and paste the screenshot.
Your Windows PC comes with the Microsoft Paint app. If you don’t know what an image editing app is, don’t worry. To view the screenshot that your PC takes when you press the print screen button, you have to open any image editing app on your PC and then paste the picture. Pasting and saving screenshots taken using the print screen key Instead, it goes to your computer’s clipboard. The full-screen screenshot your PC takes when you press the print screen (PrtSc) key isn’t automatically saved anywhere. Even still, you might not know how to locate the saved screenshot after it has been taken. It takes a screenshot of the entire screen. Simply pressing the print screen (PrtSc) key might not seem to do anything, but it does. The most popular way of taking screenshots on a Windows PC is by simply pressing the print screen (PrtSc) key.īut there’s a catch.