Taking a screen capture in Windows is really very simple to do. Just press the key combination from the keyboard WIN+PRINT and after a few moments, the capture will be automatically saved in the folder “Screenshots”.
By default, the location where screenshots are saved is “C:\User\UserName\Pictures\Screenshots”. If you take a lot of screenshots and want to avoid taking up disk space “C” or for any other reason, you can change the location where screenshots are saved at any time, through a very simple procedure.
If you want to find out how to do it, I suggest you make yourself comfortable and spend a few minutes of your time reading the following paragraphs.
Change the Screenshots folder on Windows
For change, the location where screenshots are saved on Windows procedure to be followed is as follows:
- Press from keyboard WIN+E to open “File Explorer” or alternatively, click on the icon with the yellow folder in the application bar;
- From the left side menu, select the item “Images”;
- Right click on the folder “Screenshots”;
- From the context menu that opens, click on the item “Property”;
- In the window that opens, select the tab “Path”;
- Click the button “Move”;
- Create a new folder or select the folder you want to use to save screenshots, then click the button “Select folder”;
- Click on the button “Apply”;
- Click on “Yes” if you want to move from folder “Screenshots” the previously saved images to the new folder;
- Click the button “OK”.
From now on, every time you take a screen capture, the image will be saved on the new location.
If for any reason, at a later time you want to restore the old path, the procedure the steps you need to take are as follows:
- Awards WIN+E to open “File Explorer”;
- Locate the folder where the screenshots are saved, then right-click on it;
- Click on the entry “Property”;
- In the window that opens, select the tab “Path”;
- Click on the button “Restore”;
- Click “Apply”;
- Click on “Yes” if you want to move previously saved images to the new path;
- Click the button “OK”.
