Tech2 guide: How to take a screenshot on your Windows 11 PC

Taking a screenshot might not be an important feature for everybody but still is a useful option that most people tend to rely on for their work or even personal use. You might have read something that you want to capture and save it for later reading. Or someone at work has shared an important file that you want to save locally.

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• Windows 11 offers multiple ways to take screenshots.
• Use shortcut keys like Win + Shift + S for screenshots.
• The Snipping Tool app can also capture screenshots.

Screenshots are enabled by default and you have not just one but multiple ways to take a screen grab of an image on your Windows 11 PCs. Here are the different ways it works.

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How to take screenshot on Windows 11 with shortcut keys

The first shortcut to take a screenshot on Windows 11 PCs is Windows key + Shift + S which activates the screenshot feature and lets you capture a specific part of the screen. You can drag and select the area after which the image gets locally saved to your folder.

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The second shortcut you can use is Windows Key + PrtScn that captures the entire screen of the laptop and saves a copy in the Pictures folder with a Screenshot sub folder created.

The third shortcut option is just press the Prt Sc key on your laptop and you will get the entire screen but copied to the clipboard which you can move to apps like Paint or third-party editing platforms like Canva.

And finally, you have the more useful Alt + Prt Sc shortcut that only captures the active screen and copies it to the clipboard.

How to take screenshot on Windows 11 with apps 

Besides the regular shortcut keys on Windows 11 PCs you can also take a screenshot using the default Windows app called Snipping tool and you can access it with these steps:

• Click on the Windows key
• Type Snipping in the search bar
• Click on the + icon to start a new screen grab
• The image will be captured

You can find the saved image in the Screenshot folder on your system.

Pro tip: You can use the Snipping tool to start a screen recording for a particular part of the screen as well.