Want to capture happy, intense or memorable gaming experiences or just want to take screenshots on your desktop? Well, its possible. But taking screenshots of a fullscreen game while in action is kinda impossible for other tools or software but its possible when you use the printscreen button. But its a little bit confusing to use printscreen button for capturing screenshots when you have no idea or experience of using it. In my experience, I find it hard to use when I first use it because after I press printscreen button, the next thing that comes up to my mind is "now what the next step?" because there's no instructions or a notifying message that would say what the next step would be.

The position of the printscreen button is on right after the function keys, and there are many amongst us who think that pressing this button directly commands the computer to take a screenshot of the current screen. This is not true, as the function of this key is to take a snapshot of your current computer screen and then store it on your clipboard for further use. The clipboard is an invisible medium of sorts that comes into play whenever we are transferring and files or folders. Whenever we cut or copy something, the item is temporarily stored on the clipboard, before we actually go and paste it elsewhere. Thus we use print screen to capture screen shots onto our clipboard.

Well worry no more, I will teach you how to use printscreen button for capturing screenshot. Just follow these easy and simple steps.

Lets start, Play a game then pick a scene that you want to take a screenshot then press printscreen button.

Capturing a screenshot using printscreen button

After that, Go to your desktop. If your game is in the fullscreen mode, you may close it or just press alt+tab to go to desktop and minimize the game. Then open Paint application and on it press cntrl+v or right click and click paste.

Paste the taken screenshot to paint after pressing the printscreen button

Now that the image is in the notepad. Save it then name it with your desire name and add .bmp at the end. The name should look like this chess.bmp or chess.bmp then press save.

There you go, you now have the image. isn't simple and easy?


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