Doing this creates a PNG image file on your desktop that contains your screenshot. To take a screenshot of part of your screen, drag a box around it, then hold down the Command and Shift keys and press the number 3. However, you can grab a screenshot of the entire screen on a Mac by if you hold down the Command and Shift keys and press the number 3.
There is no dedicated PrintScreen key on a Mac keyboard. I have moved the Snipping Tool to my Start menu as I use it almost daily. More recent versions of Windows include the Snipping Tool – a handy utility for grabbing an image of a portion of your desktop. You can then paste (as in cut or copy and paste) that image into a document just as you would anything that is stored in the clipboard (Press Ctrl+V or the Paste icon on your toolbar). Pressing the Alt key with PrintScreen will put an image of just the active Window into the Clipboard. Doing this places an image of your screen into the Clipboard. If youre using Microsoft Windows 10 N, install the latest Media Feature Pack. To take a quick screenshot using a keyboard shortcut, open the webpage or a picture you’d like to capture and simultaneously press the Windows key and the Print Screen button on your.
The process of taking a screenshot on Windows 7, 8.1, and 10 is pretty much the same.
Install the latest Windows support software. How to take a screenshot on your Windows PC Using keyboard shortcuts. On a PC it is easy to grab an image of what is on your computer screen (aka a “screenshot”), just hit the dedicated PrintScreen key on your keyboard (sometimes abbreviated as Print Scrn, Prnt Scrn, Prt Scn, Prt Scr, Prt Sc or Pr Sc). If your Apple keyboard works as expected in macOS but not in Windows, try these solutions: Install the latest Apple software updates for Windows.