Screenshots are an incredibly useful way to document and share what's on your screen. Whether it's a tweet you think someone may wind up deleting, a glitch that you're explaining to a tech support person or a hilariously auto corrected line of text, the ability to save your screen for posterity is useful information.

Enable or Disable High Contrast Keyboard Shortcut in Windows. The keyboard shortcut to turn on and off High Contrast is to press the left Alt + left Shift + Print Screen keys. This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable the High Contrast left Alt + left Shift + Print Screen keyboard shortcut for your account in Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10.

Fortunately, there are more than a few ways to capture the screen you're looking to save. There's the old-school Print Screen key, a method that instantly creates a new file for you, Windows' own Snipper Tool and if you're always screengrabbing, there's even a free and powerful third party program we can recommend.

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1. How To Take a Screenshot of Your Whole Screen

1. Tap the Print Screen button on your keyboard. The screen shot is now stored in your clipboard and you need to paste it into a graphics editor such as Windows Paint.

2. Type 'paint' into the search bar next to the Start menu.

3. Select 'Paint'

4. Click 'Paste'

Windows Print Screen Command Mac Keyboard

Your screenshot is ready!

2. How to Take a Screenshot of Just The Active Window

1. Hit Alt + Print Screen.

2. Type 'paint' into the search bar next to the Start menu (if Paint is already open, click Control+N and then select OK when Paint asks you to approve the height and width).

3. Select 'Paint'

4. Click 'Paste'

Your screenshot is just of the window you had open and active!

3. How To Make A Screenshot File Without Any Additional Programs

1. Hit Windows key + Print Screen.

When you navigate to the Screenshots folder inside of your Pictures, your screensh0t will be there!

4. How To Take a Screenshot of a Specific Part of Your Screen

1. Type 'snipping tool' into the search bar next to the Start menu.

2. Select 'Snipping Tool'

3. Click 'New'

4. Click and drag the cursor to select the area of the screen you want to use; release the cursor once you've selected the space you want to capture.

Your screenshot is open in Snipping Tool!

5. How To Take Screenshots With Even More Tricks

1. Open PicPick's download page, and click on 'Free Download'

2. Follow the instructions to install PicPick, and you will find a menu of specific methods for capturing part or all of your screen. Clicking 'Scrolling Window' will let you capture as much of a page or document as you can scroll through, rather than just the static version of the window.

3. Installing PicPick will change your computer's key commands for screenshots, so you should make yourself aware of those commands. Click on the 'Show hidden icons' arrow in the bottom right corner of the screen.

4. Click on PicPick's icon.

5. Select 'Program Options'

6. Select 'Hot keys' from the left-hand menu.

Here you can see what the default key commands are now that you've installed PicPick, as well as change them to suit your needs.

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Is there any way of taking a screenshot without pressing the PrintScreen button since the button on my keyboard is broken?

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4 Answers

This can be done through ON SCREEN KEYBOARD

Steps to get your ON SCREEN KEYBOARD

1. Start - Programs - Accessories - Accessibility - on screen keyboard

or

Go to Run , Type osk and the ON SCREEN KEYBOARD is yours. Just Click on PSC Tab on your ON SCREEN KEYBOARD with the mouse to capture the image.

In Windows 7 and higher, it is the Snipping Tool. There is no accessibility option for it by default. Make sure that the area you want to snip is the area that you are looking at, and not this page or it will try to snip this page.

I have found that the On Screen Keyboard (OSK) still works in win 8.1 ... the OSK is different to the win 8.1 pop up keyboard and includes all the missing keys including PrtScn.

To make OSK easy to use (first time only) press the Windows key/icon then press the search icon (top right of the start screen) and just type OSK as the search term ... OSK will pop up as a search result ... right click(or long press) the OSK icon and attach it to the task bar for access from desktop.

Then to capture a desktop screen or window image press the OSK icon on the taskbar, then press PrtScn -- or even better click any window to set the focus and then click ALT then PrtScn to capture the selected window.

Its probably best to reduce the size of the OSK window and move it out of the way of the selected window as it will be also be captured as part of the image, if it overlaps the area of interest.

There's a tidy little free program called ScreenPresso, have a go with that one. http://www.screenpresso.com. I realise it's not exactly what you were looking for but I find it works brilliantly, there's an inbuilt image editor all in a taskbar button.

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