Screenshots in Windows 10 will have no secrets: these combinations allow you to get the most out of them
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Taking a screenshot is something very common today. A very useful function present in almost all operating systems that goes beyond the always Print Screen that many of us have been using since the beginning of time in Windows.
In the Microsoft operating system, as in the Mac, there are key combinations that allow you to save work avoiding having to Use the mouse to move through the different menus. So we are going to review the main options to squeeze more of the possibilities offered by the screenshots.
Available Shortcuts
Using only and exclusively Windows 10 we are going to give a twist to the well-known Impr Pant key (Print Screen, Imp Pant or Pet Sis). This way we can capture the entire screen, but we can go a little further by adding different types of capture depending on our needs.
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PRINT SCREEN: The best known allows a normal screenshot to be saved to the clipboard. With this method we are going to need a drawing application like Paint to paste the content from the clipboard and save the capture in the place we decide.
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ALT + PRINT SCREEN: A combination that captures the active screen and saves it to the clipboard.What we capture is only and only the window or the element that we have in the foreground and like the previous one, it requires a program to remove it from the clipboard.
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WIN + SHIFT + S: a combination that opens the options to choose a zone to take screenshot and also saves the content on the clipboard. With this system, the Crop and sketch controls are opened at the top in order to choose between two cropping options to take screenshots or make a conventional capture. We take the capture from the clipboard with a drawing program like Paint.
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WIN + PRINT SCREEN: makes a full screen capture that is saved in a folder that we decide. It's the only option that makes us forget about Paint, since the content does not stay on the clipboard, but instead is automatically saved in .png in your default folder for screenshots
How to change the capture destination folder
"If necessary, you may want to change the current folder where the screenshots are saved. A very simple process that we are going to detail and that involves accessing Windows File Explorer first."
Once inside, we will dive in the left column the option to access the Images Within them we look for the folderScreenshots and click on it with the right mouse button so that a drop-down menu appears, in which we must mark the option Properties"
A properties panel opens and we look for the option Location from the top menu.We will see a screen that shows where the captures are now saved and below different options: Restore defaults to go to the default location, Move to change location by moving the content and Search destination to open the current folder chosen. "
We choose the option Move and then a dialog will open with an explorer to mark the new destination in which to locate the folder in the one we want to save the screenshots. Windows will ask us to confirm the action and the process will be finished."
