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Windows 10 supports two different methods for taking screenshots; PrntScrn, and Win+PrntScrn. PrntScrn here refers to the Print Screen key on your keyboard which will capture everything on the screen to your clipboard. You then have to manually paste it into an image editor and save it as a file …

Windows 10 allows users to take a screenshot with the Win+PrintScrn keyboard shortcut. This feature saves a full-screen screenshot to the Pictures library and when the screenshot is captured, the screen flashes to indicate that a screenshot has been taken. If you’re not a fan of the screen flashing and …

Do you take a lot of screenshots on your Linux PC? Are you weary that you may be sharing private information in the screenshots you take of your desktop? Not sure how to protect yourself when you take screenshots? We can help! Follow along with our guide as we show …

When a user, admin or otherwise, attempts to install an app, open Command Prompt with admin rights, or edit the registry, they’re stopped by the User Access Control (UAC) prompt. The prompt is easy to by-pass if you know the admin user credentials. This user prompt window is a higher …

Games and gameplay are now broadcast live. There are platforms competing to be the preferred platform that gamers will use or people will tune into to watch. Not everyone who plays games streams them but plenty of gamers will take screenshots of their gameplay now and then. Some games have …

Screenshot tools tend to focus on windows, specific areas on the screen, or the entire screen. On macOS, those are the three types of screenshots you can take out of the box. Third-party screenshot tools have similar options and they all tend to focus on entire screens, whole windows, or …

There is no shortage of Chrome extensions that can take screenshots in the browser. The niche is so crowded that they tend to come with image editors and support for cloud services that you can upload the screenshots to. Unless you need an image editor or a quick way to …

Screenshots are harmless for the most part but there are always exceptions. Some apps, particularly those that play DRM protected content tend to disable capturing screenshots. Netflix is an obvious example of this though there are ways around it. If you have an app that is blocking screenshots, and you’re …

On macOS you can take a timed screenshot. The timer can be set for 5 or 10 seconds from the Screenshot utility. If you need a longer timer, for whatever reason, the default screenshot tool won’t let you set one. You can find a third-party app to do the job …

macOS has always had the ability to take a screenshot but a few versions ago, the feature was modified slightly so that when you take a screenshot, you get a floating thumbnail of it in the bottom right corner. This feature was also added to iOS where it is far …