There are many — many even hundreds — of programs for Windows that make it easy to take screenshots\u2026 some free and some not… some simple and some not… some really fantastic with a lot of features, others not so hot. If you have one you like, great. Keep using it!<\/span><\/p>\n But for Windows 10 users who need to take a quick screenshot and don\u2019t have any 3rd-party screenshot software, it\u2019s easy. Windows 10 makes it dead simple to take screenshots.<\/span><\/p>\n First, we are going to refer to the print screen key as the PrtScr key. Your computer may have it labeled differently, but it will be similar to PrtScr. You should find it on most English keyboards on the top row of the keyboard between the Pause\/Break key and the “Delete” key — almost always on the top row of the keyboard on the far right.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n OK. To take a screenshot on Windows 10 without using any 3rd-party software, all you have to do is press Windows Key + PrtScr key. Voila! You\u2019ll instantly get a picture of whatever was on your screen and it’s saved automatically in your Pictures folder in a folder called \u201cScreenshots\u201d. The image will have a funky name like Screenshot or Screenshot(3). You can rename it, resize it, or leave it as it is.<\/span><\/p>\n But what if you want to take a screenshot of your lock screen in Windows 10? Easy as pie, I tells ya. Why would you want to do that? I don\u2019t know\u2026 maybe share your lock screen with a friend? Complain about Windows advertising? Who knows? Whatever the reason, it\u2019s easy to do.<\/span><\/p>\n With the lock screen showing, press the PrtScr key. That places the image on your Windows clipboard. You\u2019ll then need to \u201cPaste\u201d the image into your favorite image viewer or image editing program.<\/span><\/p>\n If you don\u2019t have one installed, you can use MS Paint. All Windows users have MS Paint [at least through Windows 10 version 1903]. To open MS Paint type MS PAINT in the taskbar search and press Enter.<\/span><\/p>\n Once you have MS Paint open, click the Paste icon in the ribbon.<\/span><\/p>\n What’s my lock screen look like? Well, today it looks like this:<\/span><\/p>\n If you want to try taking a screenshot of your lock screen and you don\u2019t want to restart your computer, do this:<\/span><\/p>\n Press and hold down the Windows Key and tap the L key. This locks your PC and shows the lock screen. Take your screenshot and log back in. Open your favorite screenshot app or MS Paint and paste the lock screen image and save it.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Basic Windows 10 Screenshot tips There are many — many even hundreds — of programs for Windows that make it easy to take screenshots\u2026 some free and some not… some simple and some not… some really fantastic with a lot of features, others not so hot. If you have one you like, great. Keep using it!\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1668,3428,10],"tags":[2373,3262,3470,1700,3471],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17613"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17615,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17613\/revisions\/17615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Cloudeight](\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2019\/mspaint19.png\")
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