Efficient way to take a screenshot on Windows

This simple tutorial will make you able to take single window screenshot on windows with alt print screen buttons on your Keyboard.

If you are a Windows user, you must have used the Print Screen a few times. Print Screen (Prnt Scrn) is a great feature that helps users save a shot of the activity that is running on your Windows screen. Students use it for projects, programmers for documentation and manuals and is a great help for finding help online support forums and more.

The traditional way of taking a screenshot is just pressing the Prnt Scrn button on your keyboard. This takes the screenshot of the whole screen without leaving a pixel out. But normally everybody wouldn’t need everything to be taken to the clipboard. This leads to wasting some time trying to crop out the things you need on Photoshop or other Paint tools.

usual screenshot

We are going to show you the way to efficiently take screenshots of a single window without any extra software on Windows. This will save you time if you want a screenshot of any running program on your Windows screen. For this you have to have your Programs in the front view of the screen and you’ll have to press “Alt + Prnt Scrn“. This will screenshot only the current active program in Windows leaving everything out.

one window screenshot

So there you have it, a clean one window only screenshot without any edits from any photo editing tools. Just a copy paste to Paint.Net, save and uploaded. That was really easy.

This will come very handy for students on software projects to take screenshot of their softwares, programmers to easily make manuals. And internet users can use it to screenshot whatever they can to post, ask for help or show off on the internet.

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