WINDOWS DEVICE
WINDOWS DEVICE
Snip & Sketch
The simplest way to take a screenshot in Windows is to use the Print Screen button. You'll find it on the upper-right side of most keyboards. Tap it once, and it will seem like nothing happened, but Windows just copied an image of your entire screen to the clipboard. You can then hit Ctrl+V to paste it into Paint, Word, or an image-editing program.
The problem with this method is it captures everything visible on your monitor, and if you have a multi-monitor setup, it will grab all the displays as if they're one big screen. Narrow things down with Alt+Print Screen, which will capture just the window you currently have open.
Windows also offer Snip & Sketch, which was introduced with the Windows 10 May 2019 update. Open the program by using the Shift+Windows Key+S keyboard shortcut, which will launch a small toolbar at the top of the screen so you can easily choose what to capture. (Or type "snip & sketch" into the search bar.)
Windows Snipping Tool
Snip & Sketch is similar to Microsoft's Snipping Tool, which is still available but now includes a warning about "moving to a new home" in a future Windows update and a suggestion for people to try Snip & Sketch instead.
One more built-in option for screen grabs is the Windows Game Bar. Though it is intended to record gaming sessions, it can be used to record any action and capture screen grabs. Open the tool with Windows Key+G, and tap the camera button in the Capture section to save a screenshot to the Videos/Captures folder under your main user folder.
Windows Game Bar
Windows has an array of third-party screen-capture utilities if all that fails. The best option is Snagit, which costs a whopping $50. Of course, it'll do everything you can imagine, even take a video of what's happening on your screen.
You can find plenty of screenshot apps for free, though. TechSmith Capture, by the makers of Snagit, also does screencast videos and makes sharing what you capture easy. LightShot is a nifty and small utility that takes over the PrtScrn key and makes it easy to capture and share.