Quick Answer: How to Print Screen Windows 8?
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Use the keyboard shortcut: Windows + PrtScn.

If you want to take a screenshot of the whole screen and save it as a file on the hard drive, without using any other tools, then press Windows + PrtScn on your keyboard.

Windows stores the screenshot in the Pictures library, in the Screenshots folder.

How do you screenshot on a Windows 8.1 laptop?

Windows 8.1 / 10 screen shot

  • Set up the screen as desired to take a screenshot.
  • Just Hold down the Windows Key + Print Screen.
  • You’ll find a new screenshot in the Screen Shot folder under Pictures Library as a PNG file.

Where do the screenshots go on Windows 8?

To take a screenshot and save the image directly to a folder, press the Windows and Print Screen keys simultaneously. You’ll see your screen dim briefly, emulating a shutter effect. To find your saved screenshot head to the default screenshot folder, which is located in C:\Users[User]\My Pictures\Screenshots.

Alexander Ross

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