3 Easy and Practical Ways to Take Screenshots on Laptops and PCs
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For those of you who often use laptops or computers, screen screenshot activities may no longer be new. Screenshot or SS, is done for various purposes.
Screenshots are images of screenshots that are used for various purposes. One of the most common needs, for example, is for presentation materials, or just copying and sharing it with other people via social media or chat applications.
The screenshot feature already exists in the default operating system for laptops and PCs, but there are also various kinds of third-party laptop screen screenshot applications that can be downloaded for free or for a fee.
The problem is, not everyone knows how to screenshot on laptops and computers, because it's not as easy as doing it on a smartphone screen. Even though it's actually very easy to do, in fact there are still many who don't know how to screenshot a laptop.
In this article, we describe various ways to take screenshots on laptops and PCs that are easy to do and only take less than 5 minutes.
How to take screenshots on laptops and PCs
Every laptop with a Windows operating system, starting from Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, to Windows 10, has the same basic method for taking screenshots.
Even so, each Windows operating system also has other ways that are different, and cannot be done on different operating systems. Here's how to screenshot on a Windows laptop.
1. Screenshot on a Laptop with the PrintScreen Button
One of the easiest ways to screenshot on a laptop with 1 button is by pressing the PrintScreen (prt sc) button. For more details, here are the screenshot steps using one button. The first step, prepare the screen display that will be screenshot.
Next, press the 'Prt Sc' key on the keyboard. This button is usually at the very top of the laptop keyboard, and in general, the position of this button is in the top right corner row.
After that, open the default Windows 'Paint' application, then press the 'paste' menu or press 'ctrl + v'. You can also do this by right-clicking on the mouse or mouse pad and selecting paste.
The screenshot of the laptop or computer screen will immediately appear in paint, then you can save it by selecting File > Save As > JPEG. Apart from the JPEG format, you can also choose other image formats as needed, for example PNG.
Apart from using paint, you can also use other laptop screenshot applications such as Microsoft Word to see the screenshot results.
What must be considered from the ss method on this laptop, not all laptops can do the screenshot method above. Because there are also those who have to combine the Prt Sc button with other buttons.
2. Using Windows Key + Prt Sc
This method of screenshots on a laptop can be applied starting from Windows XP, and even though it's no longer updated, this method can still be done on Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, to Windows 10.
How to screenshot on a Windows laptop:
Press Windows Logo + Print Screen (Prt Sc) simultaneously on the computer keyboard.
After that the laptop or computer screen will flash briefly, this indicates that the screenshot process is complete.
Then the screenshot image will be saved automatically in the laptop picture folder to be precise C:\Users\[username]\Pictures\Screenshots.
3. Using the Snipping Tool
On the Windows operating system, there is a built-in application called Snipping Tool. This application is useful for taking screenshots on your computer and annotating them.
To use this application, you need to open it by calling Cortana (Windows 10) or click Start and type 'snipping tool'.
After the application opens, click new and immediately select the selected screenshot area. After that you can immediately save it or take another screenshot if you feel dissatisfied.
The Snipping Tools feature was first introduced in Windows Vista and is the easiest way to do ss on laptops and computers.
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