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Onedrive allows you to automatically save screenshots with just hitting Printscreen key. Now, if you have synced the pictures folders in your pc with onedrive, it will automatically be saved in cloud on onedrive.live.com. Now, for those windows users who use printscreen key a lot and frequently capture and share screenshot, this is very helpful feature. Printscreen will not only capture but also save screenshots in your onedrive folder in your PC. If synced they will be saved in onedrive live account in the cloud also. Now, lest see how to turn on this setting.

The process is pretty simple; set up your screen so that the window that you want to screenshot is the active one. Tap Alt+PrintScreen. Unlike the Win+PrintScreen shortcut, the Alt+PrintScreen shortcut won't automatically save the image as a file. You can use Paint to save the image. A print screen, also known as a screenshot, screengrab, or screen capture, is an image you take of your computer's screen at that moment. It can serve a variety of uses, such as creating receipts, capturing information from your computer, and even allowing you to resize images.

If you have not setup onedrive, do a quick setup of onedrive on your computer. Once onedrive setup IS complete on your PC, follow given steps below to enable auto save screenshots in onedrive.



How to auto save Screenshots to Onedrive by Printscreen

Step 1 – just right click on onedrive icon in the taskbar (extreme left) and click on settings.

Step 2 -Once you click on settings. click on second tab Auto Save. In this tab area, just check the box saying auto save screenshots I capture to onedrive.

Now whenever you Press Printscreen for taking screenshot for whole window, or Alt+ Printscreen for current window, The screenshots will get automatically saved to your onedrive folder and will be synced to onedrive.live.com if synced. The Location of the screenshot in your PC is -:

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You can also access onedrive via file explorer in the right menu, or browsing to dektop or clicking the onedrive icon in the taskbar.

The green tick mark icon shows, the screenshot picture was synced on onedrivelive.com and saved in the cloud. The blue refreshing icon shows, the syncing is in progress.

Now, go to https://onedrive.live.com and you will see that your screenshots are there in addition to your pc.

Note: – Make sure that folders are synced with onedrive live account. To check which folders are currently synced, just click the third tab (Choose folders) in the settings window of one drive.

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Cookie 5 2 3 – protect your online privacy. The ability to print exactly what appears on your screen can be very convenient. You might want to take ‘screen shots' of certain configurations on your display for sending to someone else for troubleshooting purposes if something goes wrong, or you might want to print out instructions so that you have them to hand whilst you work with the laptop but there are countless other occasions where you might want to print exactly what you see on your monitor. So how do you do it?

First of all, simply clicking on the Print Screen function key usually located on the top row of keys on your laptop keyboard will do absolutely nothing. Well nothing that you can actually see anyway.

You are going to need some sort of graphics program like Paint, which is probably the easiest one to use if you are a beginner and it is automatically installed on most Windows laptops.

How Do I Print Screen And Save It

Printing Screen Shots

Ok so here goes. Click on the print screen function key to print everything that appears on your screen. If you have several tabs or screens open and you want to print only the active window then press Alt and Print Screen. You can't see anything yet; the image of what is on your screen has merely been captured and stored on a clipboard.

How To Print Screen And Save Picture

Save Print Screen Automatically

Now to view the image you have to open Paint which you can do by going to the Start at the bottom left hand side of your laptop, then all programs, then accessories and there you will find Paint.

Now that you have Paint open go to File and open a new paint window. What you need to do next is to transfer the image that has been captured by pressing the Print Screen Function and which you cannot yet see, onto the Paint programme and to do this you simply press Ctrl and V. Another way to do it is to go to the top of the Paint programme and click on Edit and then paste. The Ctrl V is a short cut key to do this.

The image of your screen will now appear on the Paint programme.

What you have to do now is save this by going to File, then Save As and save the file on your computer. When you are saving the file, save it with a name you will recognise and as a common file type for images such as BMP, JPEG, GIF etc…

Print Screen Button On Keyboard

All that's left to do now is to actually print it and to do this you simply go to File and then print and that's it, your done.

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