How to Make Use Of Windows 10’s Built-in Screen Capture Tool

1. Firstly, You’ve to check if the Game Bar is already activated (It should be activated automatically tho), Navigate to Settings > Gaming > Toggle the Game Bar Icon ON.
2. Now, Press Windows + G to launch Game Bar. Alternatively, you can navigate to Search > Game Bar and Click on it.
3. Search for “Capture” in the Game Bar Overlay or you can locate it with the camera icon beside the volume option.
4. If it ain’t amongst the overlay, then click on the Bullet-like widget icon and select Capture from the drop-down list to enable it to feature in the overlay options.

There are four buttons on the Capture widget (from left to right) with features such as:

The Screen Record feature might be available for some PC’s depending on your hardware configuration but you’ll be able to make use of the screenshot feature.

Before you start recording, you can also decide to off the mic if you want to do a voiceless video record, then you can click on the Start Recording button.

Meanwhile, For taking screenshots, simply click on the capture tool or WIN + ALT = PrntScrn to capture the full screen.

You can view your screenshots and records by clicking on “Show All Captures” below the widget. Alternatively, you can go to C:UsersNAMEVideosCaptures.

Lastly, you can change your keypad settings by going to Settings > Game Bar Controller Settings > then, customize the default keyboard shortcut from here.

If you don’t want to pass through the following steps while making a screenshot, simply:

1. Use the Shift  + Windows Key + S to access the  Snip & Sketch tool.
2. Simply crop the portion you’d like to screenshot,
3. You’ll see a pop-up with the screenshot,
4. Click on it to crop, save, and share if you want to.

That’s all! Have you ever imagined that Windows has such a simple screen capture tool? Well, now you do.

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