How To Get Windows Screenshot. You can change the screenshot's file type by clicking the "Save as type" drop-down box at the bottom of the window and then clicking a different format (e.g., JPEG) in the drop-down menu. Screenshots are stored in Pictures > Screenshots by default unless you change that destination manually.
Click on the arrow next to New and select Free-form, Rectangular, Window or Full-screen. Press the Windows+PrtScn buttons on your keyboard to save the screen to a file. PrtScn: Pressing the button once saves a screenshot of the entire screen.
To make this image a real screenshot, open an image editing application, paste the screenshot into it, and save it.
Take a Screenshot Using Snipping Tool.
Pressing the Print Screen key will take a picture of the entire screen's contents. Open the app and go through its brief tutorial. Select the Start, enter snipping tool, then select Snipping Tool from the results.