Screenshots in Windows: three alternatives to the "Print Screen" key to take them that you may not know

A while ago we saw how Redstone 5 will bring new ways to take advantage of the screenshot on our computers. However, today and while this option materializes, the options are what they are, so it is worth reviewing them, since some users may not be aware of the possibilities that Windows offers in this regard

There is life beyond the key to take screenshots in Windows (a function with a long history) and that is that thanks to keyboard combinations we can expand the options significantly and all without having to have applications from third parties.So let's get to know three alternative methods to take screenshots in Windows

Combining keys

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The first option, the best known, is the one that leads us to use the Print Screen key (or the similar name that can appear on some keyboards, such as Print Screen or Req Sys) but it is not the only. There are more options and in all of them this key is the fundamental axis:"

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• Print Screen (Print Screen): with it we take a screenshot of the entire screen that is automatically saved to the clipboard for so that we can then use it with another program. It is the most basic, the one that using the clipboard, allows us to later use that capture stored in memory with another program with the Paste or Paste from option."
• Win + Print Screen: with this option we take a full screen capture with the particularity that instead of going to the clipboard it is saved automatically in a folder.With this option the capture is saved in .png format in the folder that we have marked as destination.
• Alt + Print Screen: With this key combination, only the area of ​​the screen that is currently displayed will be saved to the clipboard. active. That is, if we have several windows open, only the window that we have in the foreground will be captured
• Win + Shift + S key: it is the equivalent in macOS to and with it we can choose the area of ​​the screen that we want to capture and which will then be saved to the clipboard. With it we will access a kind of crosshair that we will move with the mouse so that we will select with the mouse the area that we want to capture, leaving the left button pressed, we mark the area that will go to the clipboard.

There are four options for taking screenshots in Windows, being one, the first, the best known while perhaps some of the others three may be unknown to other users.

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