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But Windows provides several other ways to screenshot, many of which are better options than simply mashing the print screen button, depending on your requirements. So below we've listed seven alternate methods of screenshotting that may come in handy in day to day life. This simple keyboard combination is one that we use every day. By simultaneously hitting Alt and Print Screen, instead of capturing your entire screen, Windows 10 will only capture the active window. For those with large displays or multiple monitors with loads of windows open, this is the perfect way to capture only the most important stuff on the screen.

To access the image, you'll need to paste it into an app like Paint. This is another extremely handy keyboard combination you should put in your daily workflow. This is the best tool to use if you want an immediate image file created from your screenshot. It's quicker and easier than hitting Print Screen and then pasting the image into an image processing app like Paint. Hitting these keys simultaneously will take a screenshot of your active app and bring up a sharing panel, allowing you to easily insert and share this screenshot in other apps.

For desktop users, it's not as handy as the two shortcuts above, but it is another way to screenshot in Windows Select the type of snip ; full screen, rectangular, or free form. Take a screenshot. App offers similar solutions as Snipping tool so you can make annotation or share snip by email. Take Screenshot in Windows Edge Latest Microsoft Internet browser, Edge, has built-in annotation tool that allows users to take and modify screenshots from any webpage.

As you see, this solution works only within the browser, but not other sections in Windows. The new bar on the top of the window will pop up, see image below. From here you can easily crop and save sections of the web page, make annotation, share and email and finally save by clicking Floppy drive icon.

Astonishing, right? High competition tells that users are not entirely satisfied with native Windows solutions. Most of the apps are free, or at least offer a free trial so that you can install and test for a few days.

At that time, you need to think about cropping your screenshots for better presentation. This raises a new challenge for us to crop a screenshot on Windows. To get a high-quality cropped screenshots, read the guide below. If you want to make quick edits to your screenshots, Windows has all you need in built in.

Microsoft Paint provides powerful editing tools you can use to crop, cut, resize and touch photos. Here is a quick look at using Microsoft Paint to crop a screenshot on Windows.

Step 2. Locate Paint in the list of search results and click it to open Microsoft Paint. Step 4. Use the Crop Selection button, then select the area of the photo you want to Crop, then click Crop. For cropping screenshots on Windows with high quality, here we highly recommend a free and all-featured screenshot tool, Screen Recorder. It is specially designed to capture your computer screen with high quality.

Window Snip : Move the mouse pointer to the active window and click to capture the window image. If you use the Window Snip option and click a window behind the active window, a screenshot is taken of that window behind, plus any other windows in front of it. Full-screen Snip : As soon as you choose this selection, the Snipping Tool captures the full desktop image. If the screenshot is not as you expected, take another by selecting New in the menu.

When you're satisfied with your screenshot, save it. Snipping Tool does not capture opened context menus or other pop-up menus. When you attempt to make a screenshot of these, as soon as the Snipping Tool is activated, those menus close. Windows 10 offers a delay feature for making screenshots with Snipping Tool. The delay allows you to set up your desktop before the program freezes your screen. Click Delay and select the amount of time you'd like Snipping Tool to wait before capturing the image, up to five seconds.

Select New and set up your screen the way you want it to appear before the timer runs out. For example, to capture an open context menu, open that menu before the timer runs out.

When the delay ends, Snipping Tool captures the screenshot, including open menus. The Snipping Tool doesn't have a live timer to show you how much time you have left. To be on the safe side, give yourself five seconds for each shot. OneNote used to have a screen-clipping function. Although it's no longer available, you may still use this method to take a screenshot on older versions.

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