How To : Take a screenshot on windows

Taking a screenshot has many uses, and is a valuable tool to learn how to use for any windows user. There's 2 methods, one to take a full screen view of everything currently on your monitor and one to take a screenshot of an individual window. This article will give you a description of both.

Taking a full screen screenshot

First take a look at your keyboard. You're looking for a button that says "Prt Sc" or "Prt Scr". Some laptops you will have to combine this with the Fn key in the bottom left by the windows key in order to do this. When you hit this button it "copies" the screenshot to your virtual clipboard. 

Next you will open Paint, or another image program of your choice. Hitting Ctrl+V will "paste" the image. Save it as a .jpg or any file type you choose and you're done.

Taking a single window screenshot

For this method, first make sure you have your window of choice selected as your active window. 

Next you will hit Alt+Prt Scrn at the same time, and then open Paint and paste with Ctrl+V just like before and it will paste only the window you had active at the time, and you're finished!

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