How to take a screenshot on windows 10 – 7 Ways

In this post we will tell you 7 different methods for how to take a screenshot on windows 10. Some methods are inbuilt in Windows 10 and for some methods you have to download third party apps and extensions for browsers.

Windows 10 is most popular operating system for desktops and laptops after Windows 7. Taking screenshot on windows are popular from very long time. Using screenshot users can shares the application related issue, error messages, payment details, and web browser relevant portion to the others.

Many of you are familiar with PrtSc key in your computer keyboard to take screenshot on windows. Let’s see how to take a screenshot on windows 10 with different ways.

1.  How to take a screenshot on windows 10 using keyboard shortcuts

(a) Taking the screenshot using PrtSc key

You can take screenshot using keyboard short cuts, for example press PrtSc key, the screenshot will be captured and saved in your computer’s clipboard. Now paste this screenshot using Ctrl + V command or by right click and paste method to MS Paint, MS Word, MS Excel, in Email editor (Outlook or any other e.g. Gmail).

If you want to take screenshot of particular Windows than use Alt + PrtSc key shortcut. For example, you want to take screenshot of only browser window or some PDF document and not want to capture the full screen. After that paste it as defined above wherever you want to paste.

(b) Taking screenshot using W + PrtSc keyboard shortcut

If you press Windows logo key and PrtSC simultaneously (W + PrtSc) the screenshot of whole screen will be captured and saved automatically inside Picture/ Screenshot folder. With the name ScreenShot (1), ScreenShot (2), and so on.

2. How to take a screenshot on Windows 10 with snip and sketch app

You can take more customized screenshot on Windows 10 using snip and sketch app. Toolbar of this app also be opened using W+Shift+S key shortcut. Press these keys combinations and your screenshot toolbar will open. Now you can take rectangular snip, free form snip, window snip and full screen snip from toolbar. After using this method, you have to paste the saved image in clipboard to desired location e.g. MS Paint, MS Word etc.

3. How to take screenshot using Snipping tool

Windows 10 has inbuilt screenshot tool called, snipping tool. Open this tool by typing snipping in search box of windows in task bar. Now you can take screenshot rectangular snip, free form snip, window snip and full screen snip.

In snipping tool time delay is also available, you can set a delay of 1 sec, 2 sec etc. to take delayed screenshot.

After taking snapshot you have paste them at the place required to be used. As per the snipping tool main page, “in future update it will be completely moved to snip and sketch tool.” So thereafter you can only take screenshot using snip and sketch tool.

4. Taking screenshot using Xbox Game bar

In this section we will see how to take a screenshot on windows 10 using X Box game bar. Windows 10 is having X box game bar feature that can be opened by pressing W+ G keys combination. Or can also be opened by typing the game bar in search box.

Game bar having many features in tool bar, you can also record computer screen, can mute / unmute the sound. You can see computer performance, speaker and system sound can be controlled.

The main feature of this Game bar is to record ongoing game, therefor this app is not having various customization as snipping tool.

5. Taking screenshot on Windows tablet and surface devices

As like Android phones you can also take screenshot on windows tablets and windows surface devices using hardware key combination. To take screenshot keep pressing windows logo key and same time press volume down button to capture a screenshot. Screenshot will be captured and saved automatically saved inside Picture/ Screenshot folder.

6. How to take a screenshot on windows 10 using browser extensions

Using some browsers extensions, you can take screen shot of whole browser page, selective part of browser or can take scrolling screenshot. After taking screenshot picture can be edited and can also be converted in PDF files for sharing.

The most popular extension is Fire Shot, available for most of all browsers, tested on Google Chrome and Firefox browser.

Download Fireshot extension for Chrome and Mozzilla FIrefox from here –

FireShot for Chrome          FireShot for FireFox

7. Taking screen shot using third party apps

You can download some third-party apps for taking screen shot. For example, ShareX, Greenshot, Fireshot and Snagit apps.

While ShareX and Greenshot are opensource and fee application, Snagit is a paid app with many features.

(a) ShareX Screenshot app

ShareX is a feature rich application with plenty of features along with it is a free.

Using ShareX you can take screenshot of full screen, region, or Windows. Further you can do screen recording on your PC. After taking screenshot same can be shared on Google Photos, Twitter, Imgur, Flicker etc.. After upload the image on cloud server you can also share its link to various platforms, the link can also be shortened.

ShareX is having feature of taking scrolling screenshot, you can take screenshot of any application like MS Word document  and can also take scrolling screenshot on Web Page and thereafter save it.

ShareX is having its own image editor, you can edit the image after taking screenshot and thereafter share it.

(b) GreenShot application

Greenshot is also a opensource, free and light application. Which works from tray status icon, you can take screen shot by Region, Windows and Full screen.

You can define your customized shortcut for different screenshot options like for Full screen screenshot, region screenshot etc. You can also edit the image in GreenShot inbuilt image editor.

After taking screenshot you can save it to your desired location e.g. MS Paint, MS Word etc. and screenshot can be shared on Imgur image sharing platform for free.

(c) Snagit application for Screenshot

Snagit is not a free app as like ShareX and GreenShot but it is having plenty of feature and its editor is a   feature rich editor with having option of watermark, stamp etc.

It offers a Smart Window Detection feature that crops images for you to automatically select to capture an entire window or just a portion of the window.

Using Snagit you can also record screen of your PC. Snagit having many sharing options like Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox etc.