How to easily take screenshots in Windows 8 and RT

The new Microsoft Operating System, Windows 8 (and its RT version) has brought an interesting addition to this generation to facilitate the task of taking screenshotsSomething as simple as that, and for what until now we depended on an external program, like the everlasting Paint, will now no longer be necessary. Everything will be more direct, automatic and simple.

In this way anyone, after having learned the mechanism of this new method in Windows 8 and RT, will be able to easily take screenshots of any situation that is displayed on their screen to save it comfortably or share it with the rest of your contacts.Let's see how it's done.

Although before clarifying, in case there is any doubt, that the old method is still maintained. Anyone can capture a snapshot of their screen with the “Imp Pant” (Print Screen) key and paste it later into an image editing manager, be it Paint, Photoshop, GIMP or the like.

Take screenshots in Windows 8 and RT

The good thing about Windows 8 and RT is that we save the step of pasting the image We capture, and automatically save the image if we follow the new process. And how is it? Well, very simple. Instead of pressing the “Imp Pant” key only, we will press this together with the Windows key. In short, the Windows keys + Print Screen And we will know that the screen will have been captured because the screen will darken slightly for a few milliseconds.Very comfortable.

This capture, by the way, will be automatically saved in our “My images” folder of the user account that we are using in that moment. The route, so there is no doubt:

C:\Users\(username)\My Pictures\Screenshots

Each capture, in addition, will be saved in PNG format, and at the resolution of our team.

Screenshots by touch control

But, what happens if we don't have a keyboard to take screenshots? For example from a Surface RT with Windows RT without Touch Cover. Well, nothing happens, because we can also make the captures, although following a very different method, of course.

To do this we must press the Windows icon of the device in question, in this case Surface RT, located on the front and bottom (the same one we use to go to the Start menu), along with the volume down key, located on the upper left side.Be very careful with the latter, since if we press the volume up button we will open the Windows 8 and RT Narrator, with which it will begin to describe, out loud, any event on the screen. The method to deactivate it will be the same as to activate it, so we can solve the misstep easily.

So, to summarize, if we have a tablet with Windows 8 or RT, but without a keyboard, we should press the Windows icon plus the volume down key, saving the screenshot in the same path as the one exposed a few paragraphs back. Very easy, isn't it?