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Keyboard Shortcut for Part or Full Screenshot

By Michał

Windows 10 has a built-in screenshot tool. You can take a screenshot of the full screen or just a part of it. The screenshots will be copied to the clipboard so you can paste into any program that supports images like Paint, Photoshop, messengers like MS Teams or email messages. 

Keyboard Shortcut

Press Winkey + Shift + S. The screen will have a light or dark overlay and the mouse cursor will change to a plus (+) symbol, which means capture mode is on.

A bar will appear at the top of the main screen. From there, you can choose one of the snipping modes:

  • Rectangular - take a rectangular screenshot by dragging the desired fragment with the cursor.
  • Freeform - freely create a screenshot of a non-standard shape by "painting" with the pressed cursor.
  • Window - captures part of the screen, e.g. a window on the screen, such as browser window, file explorer window, etc.
  • Fullcreen - captures the entire screen (also from multiple monitors, if connected)


If you chose the option you wanted and took the screenshot correctly, you will be shown a notification about the saved screenshot to the clipboard. 



Clicking on the notification message opens the Snip & Sketch tool, where you can annotate, edit the image, share or copy the edited again to the clipboard.




Where is the screenshot file saved?

When you use the Winkey + Shift + C shortcut, Windows automatically saves your screenshots to a PNG file in the following folder: 

C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Packages\MicrosoftWindows.Client.CBS_cw5n1h2txyewy\TempState\ScreenClip

The system doesn't create these files alphabetically, so it's best to sort the files by date so that the newest is on top.



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