How to take long screenshot in windows 11

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• How you can download Windows 11 right now • Here’s our pick of the best student laptops in 2021 • Download the best Windows 10 antivirus Steps for how to take a print screen on Windows 11 • Find your print screen button or open the Snipping Tool. • If you're snapping the whole screen, select the window or area you want to print screen. • Save or share your image. Tools and requirements Make sure you know where your Print Screen key is on your keyboard, as this will be one of the most common methods in taking screenshots. It may also be a second function for another key, in this case, you’ll need to press the ‘Fn’ key as well to take a screenshot. It may be labeled as the following: • Prt sc • PrtSc • PrtScn • PrntScrn Step by step guide for how to print screen your entire screen 1. Find and press your print screen button (Image: © Microsoft) As per our guidance above, find the print screen button on your keyboard or laptop. Press this button and the image will now be in your clipboard ready to be pasted into your editing software of choice, a messaging platform, or wherever else you may need it. Pressing the Windows key and Print Screen will take a screenshot of everything that’s currently displayed, and will take this file into a folder, located in This PC > Pictures > Screenshots. Step by step guide for how to print screen using the Snipping Tool The Windows Snip and Sketch tool is a much more flexible way to take your print screens, letting you capture a specific wind...

Screenshots are used for a variety of reasons. Maybe you're sending someone a photo of your screen over Slack to diagnose a problem, or you just need to take a quick snippet of an important document to save for later. Regardless of the reason, there are multiple ways to take a screenshot using a Windows 11 computer. Whether you want to take a full-screen grab, you only want to capture part of the screen or you'd prefer to use a keyboard shortcut or application, the process is simple. Here are all the ways to take a screenshot on Windows 11. 1. Take a screenshot of the entire screen The easiest way to take a screenshot of your entire desktop is with the PrtSc key at the top of your keyboard. After tapping on the PrtSc key, the screenshot will be saved to your clipboard, although you won't receive any indication the screenshot has successfully been taken. To view the full-screen screenshot, use Ctrl-V to paste it into an application like Paint or Microsoft Word, or even into the body of an email. 2. Take a screenshot of the entire screen and save it to your computer Similar to the first option, hitting the Windows-PrtSc keys will take a screenshot of your entire desktop, but it'll also save the screenshot to a folder on your computer. If you hit the keys correctly, your whole screen will flash, indicating the screenshot has been taken and saved. You can find all of your full-screen screenshots in Pictures> Screenshots. You can take four types of screenshots: rectangular, fre...

This post will show you how to take a scrolling screenshot in Windows 11/10. Thus, instead of capturing only the visible area of a folder, webpage, or window, you can take a long screenshot that will capture the full content. You need to select the area from where scrolling starts and then auto scroll will start for the selected window to take the full screenshot. For doing this, we have covered some best free tools to take a scrolling screenshot. Though there are many ways to How to take scrolling screenshot in Windows 11/10 In this post, we are using three free scrolling screen capture freeware: • PicPick • ShareX • Screenshot Captor. 1] PicPick PDF, PNG, GIF, JPG, or BMP format. Also, before saving the captured screenshot, you can do the annotation part using text tool, brush, marker, image effects, highlight rectangle, and other tools. Download its installer or portable version. When you have launched the software, use the File menu on its main interface, and click on Scrolling Window. Or else you can access the Options window and set a hotkey to trigger scrolling screenshot command. After that, you can select the area to capture in the foreground window and press the left click. It will activate its auto scroll option, complete the scrolling, and open the captured image on its Image Editor tab. Now you can use annotation tools and use Save As button in File menu to save the screenshot. This software has many other options like set delay time for auto-scroll, capture a...

Microsoft's desktop operating system has long had numerous options for capturing images from your PC’s screen, perhaps too many. Fortunately, Here are the best ways to take screenshots on your computer in Windows 11. The methods range from long-standing keyboard shortcuts to the more modern and capable tools that let you do things like set timers for the screenshots as well as edit and share them. 1. Use the PrtSc (Print Screen) Key and Paste Press the PrtSc key (sometimes spelled out as Print Screen) and the full desktop image copies to the clipboard. You then must paste the image into an app that will accept it, such as Paint, Paint 3D, or If you want to capture only the active application window, add the Alt key, for Alt-PrtSc. Using this key combo saves the current window to the clipboard, and from there you must paste it into an imaging application. On Windows 11, the result can be a little strange because the rounded corners are extended to squared-off corners, since image files are always rectangular. 2. Use the PrtSc Key With OneDrive You can also use PrtSc in combination with OneDrive to automatically create an image file of your screenshot in Click or right-click on OneDrive’s cloud icon on the right side of the taskbar. Choose Settings and then the Backup tab of the dialog box and check Automatically Save Screenshots I capture to OneDrive. That one simple check box changes everything about PrtSc: You no longer have to open an image app or paste from the clipboar...