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How to take screenshots in laptop/pc?

Taking screenshots is quite easy for some people and maybe some of them do not know how to do it? So, we are here to tell you that how you can take screenshots in laptops or computers. There are many different ways to take screenshots in systems depending on the system, operating system and keyboard shortcuts. Some of them are as follows:

1: To take a screenshot of the full screen, press print screen or the "PRT SC" key. This will take a screenshot of the entire screen, but, if you want to save the screenshot as a file in your system, you have to press the windows key and print screen key together ("windows key + PRT SC"). This shortcut will take a screenshot of the entire window and save it in your system as well.

2: You can also take screenshots using the "Snipping tool" in windows. It is a pre-installed program in windows which helps us to take screenshots of any size and of any part of the active window.



3: You can also use the "Snip and Sketch" tool as well. Compared to the "Snipping Tool", it has some more features and options you can access. If you are using Windows 10 October 2018 update or above, you can use this tool to take screenshots, edit and save them according to your will.

4: You can also use the built-in Xbox game bar to take screenshots and record the screen as well in windows. This bar offers quick access to take screenshots, sharing and some other features for the PC gamers. You can access this feature by pressing "Windows + G" or just search "Game Bar" in the windows search bar. 


Open the Xbox game bar and click "Capture" (the camera icon which is highlighted in the below attached image) to take the screenshot pf the active window. You can explore some more features in the Windows Xbox game bar like screen recording, etc. 

 
So, here's some of the tools and tricks which you can use to take screenshots and record screens as well in windows pc or laptop in good quality. 

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