The activity of capturing screen displays or screenshots is indispensable for laptop and computer users. However, not everyone knows how, because it’s not as easy as doing it on a smartphone screen.
Screenshots are images of screenshots that are used for various purposes. Usually, screenshots are needed for presentation materials, or simply to copy and share them with others via social media or short messaging applications.
Various screenshot features already exist in the default operating system to various laptop screen screenshot applications available on the market. Although the process is very easy to do, in fact there are still many people who do not know how to screenshot a laptop or Windows computer.
It is proven that the keyword “how to screenshot a laptop” is quite widespread in internet search engines. Even though the method is quite easy and can be directly practiced on the respective laptop or PC device at home.
The following is a summary of how to screenshot laptops and PCs, which are summarized from the pricebook.co.id site
1. Pressing The PrintScreen Button To Screenshot PC Or Laptop Screen
The first and often used way to screenshot on laptops with one button, the easiest is to press the PrintScreen button (prt sc or PrtScr). For more details, here are the screenshot steps using one button.
- The first step is to prepare the screen display that will be screenshot.
- The second step, press the ‘Prt Sc’ key on the keyboard. Generally, this button is at the very top of the laptop keyboard, and usually, the position of this button is in the row of the top right corner.
- The third step, open the paint application which is already a package with Windows devices. Then, press the ‘paste’ menu or press ‘ctrl + v’. Alternatively, you can also do this by right-clicking on the mouse or mouse pad and selecting paste.
- The fourth step, the screenshot will be immediately visible in the paint, then, you can save it by selecting the File menu > Save As > JPEG. In addition to the JPEG format, you can also choose other image formats as needed, such as PNG.
If you don’t find the Paint application or want to try using other features, you can also use Microsoft Word. The screenshot can be seen immediately by pasting and placing it.
For those of you, laptop or PC users, you should also pay attention, that not all laptops can do the screenshot above. This is due to other combinations such as the Prt Sc button with other buttons.
2. Key Combination ‘Windows’ + ‘Prt SC’
This first laptop screen capture method has been done starting from Windows XP and it still works. Although it is no longer updated, the screenshot method on a laptop on Windows XP is still done on Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, to Windows 10.
How to screenshot on Windows :
- Press Logo “Windows” + “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’s picture folder, exactly C:Users[username]PicturesScreenshots.
3. Using Snip & Sketch
Just press “Windows” + “Shift” + “S” keys. Then once done, a new window will appear, where the captured screen appears.
To take a screenshot, simply move the cursor with the ‘+’ symbol and place it on the part of the laptop or computer screen that you want to save. This method is similar to when we want to crop an image.
The recorded part of the screen will change color to light, and when finished, the screenshot will appear in the lower right corner of the laptop or computer screen.
Choose to view the screenshot on the clipboard, and edit the image by adding or subtracting certain sections. When finished, click the diskette icon to save the screenshot and select the folder where to save it.
4. Using the Snipping Tool
On the new Windows operating system, there is a built-in application called Snipping Tool. This application is useful for taking screenshots and annotating them.
To use this application, you need to open it by calling via 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 do it again if you are not satisfied.
This Snipping Tools feature was first introduced in Windows Vista and is the easiest way to screenshot on laptops and computers.
5. Key Combination “Windows + G Key”
How to screenshot on laptops and computers can also be done through the game bar, by pressing the ‘Windows’ and ‘G’ keys. After pressing the button, the game bar will appear. You can select ‘Capture’ to capture the laptop screen.
Besides being able to take screenshots on laptops and computers, the game bar can also be used to record screens, and perform live streaming while playing games.
How to screenshot laptop and computer screens using this method is also quite easy. After you press Windows key + G, a new window will appear. Select the camera icon to take a screenshot.
The screenshot will appear in the ‘Gallery’ window and you can open it by clicking the ‘Open File Location’ button located in the lower right corner.
The interesting thing about this method, besides being able to take screenshots of laptop and computer screens, you can also share screenshots on Twitter, save them in the clipboard, and even create memes to upload to the internet.